Test your work health and safety knowledge.

As an employer, you are responsible for the health and safety of visitors to your workplace.

Reasoning: true, as the health and safety of visitors that attend the workplace must be considered by employers and other people conducting the business or undertaking.

Every business will be able to ensure the health and safety of its workers using the same measures.

Reasoning: false, as the measures to be taken to ensure the health and safety of workers vary from business to business.

A café only employs one employee who has worked for the company for the past five years. They were briefed on the café’s health and safety policies and procedures when they commenced their employment. Is their employer obligated to ensure they regularly consult with the employee?

Reasoning: yes, as health and safety legislation requires consultation with workers.

When thinking about health and safety in the workplace, both physical and mental/psychological health and safety needs to be considered.

Reasoning: true, as mental and psychological health are required to be considered in addition to physical health and safety.

An employee has an arrangement with her employer that she works from her home office one day per week. The employer is not responsible for her health and safety on the day that she is working from home.

Reasoning: false, as the employer’s duty extends beyond the physical office and business premises and applies to areas in which a worker is performing work.