• take reasonable care for the health and safety of your co-workers who may be affected by your actions
• cooperate with your employer in anything that they do or require, in order to ensure safety.

• ensure that your actions do not put others at risk
• work safely
• use and maintain machinery and equipment properly
• ensure that your work area is free of hazards.

Cooperating with your employer may include:

• notifying your supervisor of actual and potential hazards
• wearing or using prescribed safety equipment
• carrying out work in a safe manner
• following health and safety instructions
• taking notice of signs
• adhering to speed limits
• participating in safety training.

Section 21 of the Act states that you must not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety and welfare.

You must not:

• move or defacing signs
• tamper with warning alarms
• remove machine guards
• skylark
• play jokes
• behave in a way that results in risk to others.

Section 22 states that you must not be charged for anything that your employer provides or does in relation to occupational health and safety (OHS).

You should not:

• be asked to pay for a training course that your employer deems necessary to the safe system of work
• be required to provide your own personal protective equipment
• be required to pay for equipment that is required to do the job safely
• lose pay or time if you are working as an OHS representative or on an OHS committee. 

Section 23 protects you from dismissal or demotion should you raise any health and safety issues.

Section 24 states that you must not intentionally hinder or obstruct:

• the giving or receiving of any form of aid when a co-worker is injured at work
• any act to avoid or prevent a serious risk to the health and safety of a co-worker.

Section 25 states that you must not deliberately create a risk to the health and safety of your co-workers, such as with a bomb threat or intentional false alarm.