Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES ACT 2004 - SECT 16

    (1)     A regulation may prescribe what are, or are not, reasonable steps in relation to a risk.

    (2)     However, if a regulation does not prescribe what are, or are not reasonable steps in relation to a risk, all of the following must be considered in working out whether reasonable steps have been taken to minimise the risk:

        (a)     the seriousness of the risk;

        (b)     the current state of knowledge about—

              (i)     the hazard giving rise to the risk and the risk itself; and

              (ii)     any ways of eliminating the hazard or minimising the risk;

        (c)     the availability and suitability of ways to eliminate the hazard or minimise the risk;

        (d)     the cost of eliminating the hazard or minimising the risk;

        (e)     anything else prescribed by regulation.