If a PCBU cannot eliminate a risk, they must minimise the risks so far as is reasonably practicable. You must identify, assess, and control hazards and risks. The model WHS Regulations sets out specific requirements that PCBUs must comply with when managing risks that arise from certain hazards or hazardous work.

This fact sheet outlines the meaning of persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), worker and officer under work health and safety laws.

A ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’ (PCBU), who is usually the employer, has the primary duty of care under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) to ensure the health and safety of workers and others at the workplace, so far as is reasonably practicable.

A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) has a primary duty of care to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers. A PCBU owes a primary duty of care to workers if it: • engages or causes the engagement of workers to carry out work, or • directs or influences workers carrying out work

The primary duty holder under the model WHS laws is a PCBU. The term PCBU covers a broad range of modern work relationships and business structures. A PCBU can be an employer, a sole trader, self-employed person, company or corporation, association or government.

Under the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WHS Act) and regulations that came into effect in March 2022, all PCBUs have a primary duty of care to ensure the health and safety of their workers while they are at work. In this context, workers are people engaged by the PCBU and whose activities in carrying out the work are influenced or directed ...

2022年4月12日 · The primary work health and safety duty of a person in control of a business or undertaking (PCBU) is to ensure the health and safety of workers, customers and visitors by providing a safe workplace and safe systems of work.

Australia’s harmonised WHS legislation places duties on persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) to protect health and safety of workers and others. This Info Sheet provides information on the PCBU’s duties and actions to manage health and safety.

A ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’ (PCBU) is a broad term used throughout work health and safety legislation to describe all forms of modern working arrangements, which we commonly refer to as businesses. A person who performs work for a PCBU is considered a worker. Types of PCBUs can include: public and private companies

The WHS Act places the primary duty of care and various other duties and obligations on a ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’ (PCBU). The meaning of a PCBU is set out in section 5 of the WHS Act.