Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · General Duties of Persons at Workplaces
12A. Duties of platform operators
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It is the duty of every platform operator to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure the safety and health of the platform operator’s platform workers at work.
at work
“at work” means —(a)in relation to an employee, all times when the employee is performing work in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking carried on by his or her employer, wherever that work is carried out;(b)in relation to a self-employed person, all times when the person is performing work as a self-employed person, wherever the work is carried out; and(c)in any other case, all times when the person is performing work at the direction of the other person who engaged him or her, wherever the work is carried out;
For the purposes of subsection (1), the measures necessary to ensure the safety and health of platform workers at work include —
providing and maintaining for those platform workers a work environment which is safe, without risk to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work;
ensuring that those platform workers take adequate safety measures in respect of any machinery, equipment, plant, article or process used by those platform workers;
ensuring that those platform workers are not exposed to hazards arising out of the platform operator’s arrangements and processes for, and organisation of, the provision of the platform service;
developing and implementing procedures for dealing with emergencies that may arise while those platform workers are at work; and
ensuring that those platform workers at work have adequate instruction, information, training and supervision as is necessary for them to perform their work.