Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces Code of Practice - Northern Territory

Description

You may be required to comply with this code if you conduct a business that involves potential fall hazards in the workplace, or if you have a duty to manage safety of potential fall hazards in the workplace.

You may achieve compliance with your legislative requirements through another method if it provides an equivalent or higher standard of work health and safety.

Duties in relation to how to manage and control potential fall hazards in the workplace include:

  • identifying potential hazards and health and safety concerns
  • putting in place controls to lower and eliminate risks, such as proper training or warning signage.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Administering agency

Department of the Attorney-General and Justice

NT WorkSafe

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