VIC LEGISLATION.

The main purposes of this Act are—

(a) to create a legislative framework to give effect to the objects of this Act; and
(b) to repeal the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1985; and
(c) to provide for matters of a transitional nature and make consequential amendments.

The objects of this Act are—

(a) to secure the health, safety and welfare of employees and other persons at work; and
(b) to eliminate, at the source, risks to the health, safety or welfare of employees and other persons at work; and
(c) to ensure that the health and safety of members of the public is not placed at risk by the conduct of undertakings by employers and self-employed persons; and
to provide for the involvement of employees, employers, and organisations representing those persons, in the formulation and implementation of health, safety and welfare standards—
having regard to the principles of health and safety protection set out in section 4.