Work Health and Safety Sample Clauses

Work Health and Safety. ‌ 13.1 The parties are committed to, and acknowledge the mutual benefit to, and responsibility of, the employer and employees for maintaining a safe and healthy work environment in accordance with applicable legislation. 13.2 Agencies will strive to achieve best practice in preventing and minimising workplace injuries, illness and periods of absence from work in order to: 13.2.1 Improve workplace health and safety; 13.2.2 Improve return to work performance; and 13.2.3 Reduce human and workplace costs of injury or illness. 13.3 The parties will work towards achieving and maintaining applicable work health and safety and injury management standards and practices, including: • Ensuring understanding of the importance of systematically managing OHS in all work activities and workplaces through consultative processes. • Supporting and engendering a safety culture within agencies that promotes the adoption of safe work practices. • Achieving continuous improvement, and best practice, in occupational health and safety, and injury management performance. • Implementation and continuous improvement of monitoring and reporting systems. • Development and implementation of more flexible “return to work” options aimed at improving return to work performance. • A collaborative approach to identifying hazards, assessing risks and implementing reasonable measures to eliminate or minimise those risks. • Participation in pro-active prevention strategies aimed at improving the health, safety and well-being of all employees. • Achieving improved outcomes from preventative, rehabilitation and return to work strategies. 13.4 The employer acknowledges the benefits both to the organization and individual employees gained through employees having a balance between their work and personal life. 13.4.1 In establishing and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment, an agency will not require an employee to have an unreasonable workload in the ordinary discharge of the employee’s duties. 13.4.2 The employer and agencies recognise that the allocation of work (including new or revised duties) must include consideration of the employee’s hours of work, health and safety. Work will be allocated so that there is not an allocation that routinely requires work to be undertaken beyond an employee’s ordinary hours of work. 13.4.3 A Chief Executive may require an employee to work overtime: 13.4.3.1 If work is unavoidable because of work demands and reasonable notice of the requirement to ...

Work Health and Safety. (a) The employer and employee acknowledge their responsibilities under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012. (b) Where there is a Work Health and Safety Representative they must be elected and will carry out the tasks associated with the role of Work Health and Safety Representative set out within the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

Work Health and Safety. The Consultant must: ensure that in carrying out the Services and the Works: it complies with all Statutory Requirements and other requirements of the Contract in respect of work health and safety, including the applicable WHS Legislation; it complies with the duty under the WHS Legislation to consult, co-operate and co-ordinate activities with all other persons who have a work health and safety duty in relation to the same matter; it complies with the duty under the WHS Legislation to notify the relevant regulator immediately upon becoming aware that a notifiable incident (within the meaning of the WHS Legislation) has occurred arising out of its business or undertaking; and it complies with the duty under the WHS Legislation to, where a notifiable incident has occurred, to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the site where the notifiable incident has occurred is not disturbed until an inspector arrives at the site or any earlier time that an inspector directs, unless it is to: assist an injured person or remove a deceased person; make the area safe or to minimise the risk of a further notifiable incident; or the relevant regulator/inspector has given permission to disturb the site; carry out the Services and the Works to ensure the health and safety of persons is not put at risk; without limiting the Consultant's obligations under this Contract or otherwise at law or in equity, notify the Commonwealth's Representative in respect of: notifiable incidents within the meaning of the WHS Legislation, immediately; work health and safety incidents or accidents (which are not notifiable incidents) where the nature of the incident or accident indicates a potential systemic failure to identify hazards and manage risks to health and safety, so far as is reasonably practicable, within 24 hours of the incident or accident occurring; and all other work health and safety matters arising out of or in any way in connection with the Services, including the occurrence of any other incident or accident (not required to be reported in accordance with subparagraphs (i) or (ii)), within 30 days of such incident occurring; for the purposes of paragraphs (iii) and (c), in respect of any notifiable incident: immediately provide the Commonwealth's Representative with a copy of the notice required to be provided to the relevant Commonwealth, State or Territory regulator; promptly provide the Commonwealth's Representative with a copy of all witness statements and the i...

Work Health and Safety. 54.1 The Employer and Employee acknowledge their responsibilities under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) and Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012 (NSW). 54.2 Where there is a Work Health and Safety Representative they must be elected and will carry out the tasks associated with the role of Work Health and Safety Representative set out within the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW).

Work Health and Safety. In complying with its obligations pursuant to this agreement, the Contractor agrees to: 17.10.1 comply with any environmental requirements of the Council communicated from time to time by the Council to the Contractor; 17.10.2 comply with all requirements of the Work Health and Safety ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ (SA) and any regulations made under it; 17.10.3 comply with any reasonable requests of the Council in relation to the Contractor’s performance of its obligations pursuant to this agreement; and 17.10.4 promptly notify the Council of any accident, injury, property or environmental damage of any potential breach of any law (reportable incident) that occurs during or as a result of this agreement. Within 24 hours of a reportable incident, the Contractor must provide a report to the Council’s Representative giving complete details, including the results of investigations into its cause and recommendations or strategies for prevention in the future.

Work Health and Safety. 14.1.1 The parties to this Agreement are committed to the safe operation of machinery and equipment, to the observance of safe working practices, the proper use of all personal safety equipment and to the safety and health of all Employees and other persons who may enter the workplace. 14.1.2 Smoking is not permitted inside Company premises (including toilets) or vehicles. 14.1.3 Employees should immediately notify Company management by completion of the relevant form if they injure themselves at work or subsequently become aware of any injury or disease that they may have sustained during the course of employment with the Company.

Work Health and Safety. 11.11.1 For the purposes of the WHS Law, the Tenant agrees that: (a) the Tenant has sole management and control of the Premises and has sole responsibility for ensuring that the Premises and the means of entering and leaving them are safe and without risks to health; (b) the Landlord: (i) appoints the Tenant as Principal Contractor in respect of any works to be carried out by or on behalf of the Tenant on the Premises to which a WHS Law applies; and (ii) authorises the Tenant to exercise whatever authority is necessary for the Tenant to discharge the responsibilities of that appointment; (c) the Tenant has management and control over those works, and must carry out those works in accordance with the requirements of the WHS Law; and (d) the Tenant must put in place adequate systems to assess and eliminate all hazards associated with those works and, if those hazards cannot be eliminated, the Tenant must do everything reasonably practicable to ensure that the risks involved are adequately controlled and minimised. 11.11.2 The Tenant must: (a) immediately comply with directions on safety issued by any relevant Government Authority or the Landlord; (b) participate in emergency training activities, including evacuation exercises; (c) give the Landlord written notice of any risks to the health and safety of any person using the Premises or using the Landlord’s Property, immediately after becoming aware of those risks; and (d) give the Landlord written notice of any notifiable incident (as defined in the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)) that occurs on the Premises, immediately after becoming aware of that incident. 11.11.3 Unless otherwise advised by the City, the Tenant will be responsible for: (a) developing an emergency plan and evacuation diagram for the Premises within one month of the Commencing Date; (b) forming an Emergency Planning Committee and Emergency Control Organisation to manage safety and emergency responsibilities and procedures for the Building; (c) reviewing the emergency plan annually and wherever a change has been made to the tenancy/building and updating as required; (d) reviewing the evacuation diagram at least every five years and wherever a change has been made to the tenancy/building and updating as required; (e) providing details of any emergency plans, diagrams, training and evacuations to the Landlord annually or where changes have been made to the Premises/Building or the emergency plans and/or evacuation diagrams; and (f) pro...

Work Health and Safety. 18.1 The Supplier shall: (a) ensure compliance with all laws and legal requirements relating to workplace health and safety; and (b) comply with all reasonable directions of the Purchaser with respect to workplace health and safety and ensure nothing done by the Supplier places the Purchaser in breach of its obligations under all laws and legal requirements.

Work Health and Safety. The Contractor acknowledges that the Principal is relying on the Contractor’s skill and experience in the Works to perform the Contract safely and in accordance with the WHS Requirements. The Contractor must ensure that the Contractor’s Personnel: are competent and have the necessary skills, qualifications, licences and experience to perform their work safely; understand and will comply with the WHS Requirements when providing the Works. The Contractor must ensure it has adequate oversight of the Contractor’s Personnel to monitor if they are working safely and in accordance with the WHS Requirements when providing the Works. The Contractor warrants that it: has, or will within 30 days of the date of this Contract develop, a health and safety management plan specific to the provision of the Works (HSMP) that complies with WHS Requirements; will maintain and update the HSMP to ensure it is, and remains, fit for purpose over the life of the Contract; and will ensure WHS when providing the Works is managed in accordance with the HSMP and WHS Requirements. The Contractor must notify the Principal of: each Notifiable WHS Incident; and/or any investigation or enforcement action taken by a WHS Regulator or other third-party, including the issue of any improvement, prohibition or any other statutory notice related to WHS; and/or proceedings under WHS Legislation. The Contractor must give the Principal a copy of any notification sent to a WHS Regulator or other third party because of a Notifiable WHS Incident within 24 hours of sending the notification to the WHS Regulator. If requested by the Principal, the Contractor must give the Principal a copy of: all documents the Contractor is required to provide to a WHS Regulator or other third party in relation to a Notifiable WHS Incident or any enforcement action taken by a WHS Regulator or other third party; all documents a WHS Regulator or other third party sends to the Contractor in relation to a Notifiable WHS Incident or any enforcement action taken by a WHS Regulator or other third party; and any other document in relation to a Notifiable WHS Incident or any enforcement action taken by a WHS Regulator or other third party. The Principal may, but is not required to: investigate any Notiifable WHS Incident; and/or participate in an investigation of a Notifiable WHS Incident conducted by the Contractor. The Contractor must cooperate with the Principal and help facilitate the Principal’s investigation, if the Principa...