Chapter heading 1

Discussion of the options and associated issues

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    Before turning to each option, we note that current OHS legislation throughout Australia provides for duties of care to be owed by:
    

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  employers to employees;
  
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  employers to persons other than their employees in relation to the conduct by the employer of its undertaking;
  
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  self-employed persons to other persons in relation to the conduct by the self-employed person of their undertaking;
  
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  various parties who in some specified way provide or contribute to various things used in or necessary for the undertaking of work (e.g. the workplace, plant, substances);
  
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  employees; and
  
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  officers, either by their direct duties or by attributed liability for offences by their corporation, partnership or unincorporated association.