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CurrentManagement of risks
Part 2Health and safety duties
Division 1Introductory
Subdivision 1Principles that apply to duties
17 Management of risks
(1)
A duty imposed on a person to ensure health and safety requires the person—
(a)
to eliminate risks to health and safety, so far as is reasonably practicable; and
(b)
if it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate risks to health and safety, to minimise those risks so far as is reasonably practicable.
(2)
A person must comply with subsection (1) to the extent to which the person has the capacity to influence and control the matter or would have that capacity but for an agreement or arrangement purporting to limit or remove that capacity.
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