Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00559:clause:1_27
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00559
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 27
Character Range: 74807–75942

27  Determining what is reasonably practicable to ensure safety
  In this Law, reasonably practicable, in relation to a duty imposed upon a person to ensure safety, means that which is, or was at a particular time, reasonably able to be done in relation to ensuring safety, taking into account and weighing up all relevant matters, including:
 (a) the likelihood of the hazard or risk concerned eventuating; and
 (b) the degree of harm that might result from the hazard or risk concerned eventuating; and
 (c) what the person concerned knows, or ought reasonably to know, about:
 (i) the hazard or the risk concerned; and
 (ii) ways of eliminating or minimising the hazard or risk concerned; and
 (d) the availability and suitability of ways to eliminate or minimise the hazard or risk concerned; and
 (e) after assessing the extent of the hazard or risk concerned and the available ways of eliminating or minimising the hazard or risk concerned, the cost associated with available ways of eliminating or minimising the hazard or risk concerned, including whether the cost is grossly disproportionate to the hazard or risk concerned.