If you’re a PCBU, you must manage the health and safety risks to workers and other persons, so far as is reasonably practicable. This includes when workers are working from home.
PCBU duties under WHS laws
A PCBU has a duty under model WHS laws to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers while they are at work. This means eliminating or minimising health and safety risks so far as is reasonably practicable, including when workers are working from home. You can do this by using the four-step risk management process.
You must also consult with workers, and their health and safety representatives (HSRs) if they have them, about health and safety issues that may directly affect them.
Workers’ WHS duties
Workers have a duty at work to:
- take reasonable care for their own health and safety and to not adversely affect others health and safety
- comply with reasonable WHS instructions, as far as they are reasonably able, and
- cooperate with reasonable WHS policies or procedures that have been provided to them.
For more information see the below resources.