Safety in the entertainment industry

The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 defines:

A person conducts a business or undertaking (PCBU) as a person conducting business or undertaking alone or with others; whether or not the business or undertaking is conducted for profit or gain.

A person is a worker if the person carries out work in any capacity for a PCBU, including work as an employee, a contractor or subcontractor, an apprentice or trainee, a student gaining work experience or a volunteer.

A union as an association of employees or independent contractors, or both, that is registered or recognised as such an association under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory industrial law.

A health and safety representative (HSR), in relation to a worker, is the health and safety representative elected for the work group of which the worker is a member.

A workplace is a place where work is carried out for a business or undertaking and includes any place where a worker goes, or is likely to be, while at work, including a vehicle, vessel, aircraft or other mobile structure; and any waters and any installation on land, on the bed of any waters or floating on any waters.