This term is not defined in the OHS laws. Whether or not something is, or is not, reasonably practicable depends on the facts of the situation. In general: reasonable means that a person must consider: risks to workers, nature of the hazard, length of exposure, number of workers exposed, and severity of risk, and practicable means that a person must consider what is: possible, capable of being done, capable of being used, technologically feasible. In other words, the degree of risk in a particular situation must be balanced against the time, trouble, cost and physical difficulty of taking measures to avoid the risk. In the end, only a court (or other authority specified in the OHS laws) can decide whether something was, or was not, reasonably practicable. Last Reviewed: December 2021