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General duties

2.2.9. Employers should satisfy themselves that all workers are suitably
instructed in the hazards connected with their work and environment and trained in the
precautions necessary to avoid accidents and injury to health.

2.2.10. Employers should take all practicable steps to ensure that workers are
made aware of the relevant national or local laws, regulations, standards, codes of
practice, instructions and advice relating to prevention of accidents and injuries to
health.

2.2.11. Buildings, plant, equipment, tools, machinery or workplaces in which a
dangerous defect has been found should not be used until the defect has been remedied.

2.2.12. Where there is an imminent danger to the safety of workers, the employer
should take immediate steps to stop the operation and evacuate workers as appropriate.

2.2.13. On dispersed sites and where small groups of workers operate in isolation,
employers should establish a checking system by which it can be ascertained that all the
members of a shift, including operators of mobile equipment, have returned to the camp
or base at the close of work.

2.2.14. Employers should provide appropriate first aid, training and welfare
facilities to workers and, whenever collective measures are not feasible or are
insufficient, provide and maintain personal protective equipment and clothing.
Employers should also ensure access for workers to occupational health services.

2.3. General duties of self-employed persons

2.3.1. Self-employed persons should comply with the prescribed safety and
health measures at the workplace according to national laws or regulations.

2.4. Co-operation and co-ordination

2.4.1. Whenever two or more employers undertake activities at one construction
site, they should co-operate with one another as well as with the client or client's
representative and with other persons participating in the construction work being
undertaken in the application of the prescribed safety and health measures.

2.4.2. Whenever two or more employers undertake activities simultaneously or
successively at one construction site, the principal contractor, or other person or body
with actual control over or primary responsibility for overall construction site activities,
should be responsible for planning and co-ordinating safety and health measures and, in
so far as is compatible with national laws and regulations, for ensuring compliance with
such measures.

2.4.3. In so far as is compatible with national laws and regulations, where the
principal contractor, or other person or body with actual control over or primary

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