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A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) has the primary duty under the WHS Act to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that workers and other people are not exposed to health and safety risks arising from the business or undertaking. This duty includes providing and maintaining a work environment that is without risks to health and safety. In stevedoring this duty means that a PCBU must eliminate risks arising from stevedoring or, if that is not reasonably practicable, minimise the risks so far as is reasonably practicable.
In addition to the primary duty of care, the WHS Regulations include specific requirements to manage risks in areas relevant to stevedoring operations including noise, hazardous manual tasks, falls, hazardous chemicals and plant.
Duty holders include those who operate a business involved in stevedoring operations and those who have management or control of a workplace where stevedoring operations are carried out, for example ship owners and port authorities.
Designers, manufacturers, importers, suppliers and installers of plant or structures used in stevedoring operations must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the plant or structure is designed, manufactured, imported, supplied or installed without risks to health and safety.
Further guidance is available in the Guide: Safe design, manufacture, import and supply of plant.
Officers, including company directors, have a duty to exercise due diligence to ensure the business or undertaking complies with the WHS Act and Regulations. This includes taking reasonable steps to ensure the business or undertaking has and uses appropriate resources and processes to eliminate or minimise risks arising from stevedoring operations.
Workers have a duty to take reasonable care for their own health and safety and must not adversely affect the health and safety of other persons. Workers must comply with any reasonable instruction and co-operate with any reasonable policy or procedure relating to health and safety at the workplace. If personal protective equipment (PPE) is provided by the business or undertaking, workers must use it in accordance with the information, instruction and training provided.
Other people at the workplace including visitors must take reasonable care for their own health and safety and must not adversely affect the health and safety of others. They must comply, so far as they are reasonably able, with any reasonable instruction given by the PCBU to allow that person to comply with the WHS Act.

     1.3.           What is required to manage risks associated with stevedoring operations?
The WHS Regulations require a PCBU to manage risks associated with specific hazards including noise, hazardous manual tasks, falls, confined spaces, plant and electricity.
Section 2 provides guidance on how to manage the risks associated with stevedoring operations by following a systematic process