Here is the ergonomics legislation from
Liberia
The information here was collated from official online sources by Ergo Global ergonomists. All information is for general purposes and cannot be considered 1-to-1 legal advice. Ergo Global disclaim any liability relating to the information provided on this page.
To Note
Liberia does not have a single “ergonomics act,” but ergonomics regulation is integrated into its Decent Work Act, 2015.
It has no specific ergonomics regulations relating to remote work.
Page last updated: 31/07/2026
The Duties of
The Employer
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§ 25.1
a) Every employer shall ensure so far as is reasonably practicable the safety and health at work of all workers they have engaged.
b) Without limiting the scope of the preceding provisions, an employer contravenes their obligation under this section by failing:
i) to provide and maintain plant and systems of work that are safe and without risks to health;
ii) to make arrangements for ensuring safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use or operation, handling, storage or transport of plant and substances;
iii) to provide, in appropriate languages, such information, instruction, training and supervision as may be necessary to ensure the safety and health of workers they have engaged and to take such steps as are necessary to make available in connection with the use at work of any plant or substance adequate information in appropriate languages:
(1) about the use for which the plant is designed and about any conditions necessary to ensure that, when put to that use, the plant will be safe and without risks to health; or
(2) about any research, or the results of any relevant tests which have been carried out, on or in connection with the substance and about any conditions necessary to ensure that the substance will be safe and without risks to health when properly used;
iv) as regards any workplace under the employer's control to maintain it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health; or
v) as regards any workplace under the employer's control to provide and maintain means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without any such risks; and
vi) to provide and maintain a working environment for workers they have engaged that is safe and without risks to health, and adequate as regards facilities for their welfare at work. -
§ 25.3
a) Every employer or self-employed person shall ensure so far as is reasonably practicable that persons other than workers they have engaged are not exposed to risks to their safety or health arising from the conduct of the undertaking of the employer or self employed person.
b) Every employer or self-employed person shall give to persons other than workers they have engaged, who may be affected by the manner in which they conduct their work, such information as may be prescribed, on such aspects as might affect their safety or health.
The Duties of
The Employee
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§ 25.6
Every worker shall, at all times while at work, take all reasonable care
a) Not to take any action, or make any omission, that creates a risk, or increases an existing risk, to the safety or health of any worker including themselves or of other persons (whether workers or not) at their workplace; and
b) In respect of any duty or obligation imposed on the workers' employer, or on any other person by or under this Act, to cooperate with the employer, or that other person, to the extent necessary to enable the employer or other person to fulfill that duty or obligation; and
c) To use equipment, in accordance with any instructions given by the worker's employer consistent with its safe and proper use, that is
i) supplied to the worker by the employer; and
ii) necessary to protect the safety and health of the worker, or of other persons (whether workers or not) at the worker's workplace.
What's next?
Step 1
Run an ergonomics audit following these regulations.
Step 2
List out the gaps in your ergonomics policy.
Step 4
Contact Ergo Global for more support where needed.
