AN120484 – Saddlery, Leather, Canvas and Plastic Material Workers' (State) Award

24. TOOLS OF TRADE AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHING

(a) The employer shall provide tools and implements of trade necessarily required by the employee in the performance of his/her duties. The employee who has been provided by the employer with facilities to lock up such tools shall be held responsible for the safe custody of tools issued to him/her, and shall replace or pay for any tools so provided if lost or wilfully or negligently damaged.

(b) Where work is of an unusually dirty or offensive nature, where excessive soiling or damage may occur to employees' working clothes, or where the nature of the work requires suitable and adequate protective clothing it shall be supplied by the employer. Employees shall take reasonable care of clothing so provided. Any dispute as to this clause shall be referred to the Industrial Committee.