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Safety In Design

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Definitions Used in Queensland<br />

• Workplace<br />

• Any place where work is, or is to be, performed by a worker or a person<br />

conducting a business or undertaking<br />

• Building or Structure<br />

• Structure: definition is very broad and includes a building, underground works,<br />

roads, footpaths, railway lines, water storages/supply systems, formwork,<br />

falsework, scaffold or other construction designed for use during construction<br />

work<br />

• As Far as Reasonably Practicable needs to take in to account<br />

• General OH&S duties are not qualified by the term “reasonably practicable” –<br />

the defendant has the onus of proof that an offence was not committed

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