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45: Duties of workers
or “Workers' responsibilities for health and safety at work”
You could also call this:

“Stay safe and follow instructions at work to protect yourself and others”

If you are at a workplace, you must take care of your own health and safety. You need to make sure that what you do, or don’t do, doesn’t harm other people’s health and safety. You also need to follow any reasonable instructions given by the person in charge of the business or undertaking (PCBU). These instructions help the PCBU follow the rules set out in this Act or other regulations. You should do your best to follow these instructions as much as you can.

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or “Punishment for knowingly risking someone's life or health at work”
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Part 2 Health and safety duties
Duties of officers, workers, and other persons

46Duties of other persons at workplace

  1. A person at a workplace (whether or not the person has another duty under this Part) must—

  2. take reasonable care for his or her own health and safety; and
    1. take reasonable care that his or her acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of other persons; and
      1. comply, as far as he or she is reasonably able, with any reasonable instruction that is given by the PCBU to allow the PCBU to comply with this Act or regulations.

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