Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01055:front:0:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01055
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 39120–41916

that:
 (a) records obtained by the operator as a result of health surveillance are kept as confidential records; and
 (b) the written consent of the employee or contractor is obtained before the records are given or shown to a person (other than the operator, the employee or contractor, or a person entitled to have access to the records under regulation 2.22) who is entitled to have access to the records.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.

2.19  Instruction and training
  An operator must ensure that:
 (a) employees and contractors who are likely to be exposed to a hazardous substance, and anyone supervising the employees or contractors, are trained and provided with information and instruction in:
 (i) the nature of the hazard associated with the substance, the process of risk assessment and the level of risk; and
 (ii) the control procedures associated with the use of the substance; and
 (iii) the need for, and proper use and maintenance of, measures to control risk; and
 (iv) the use, fit, testing and storage of personal protective equipment, if personal protective equipment forms a part of the measures to control risk; and
 (b) the instruction and training are commensurate with the level of risk to health, caused by the hazardous substance, that is assessed.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
Note: Guidance on the key elements of an induction and training program can be found in the National Code of Practice for the Control of Workplace Hazardous Substances [NOHSC:2007 (1994)].

2.20  Exposure to scheduled carcinogenic substances
 (1) If it is likely that an employee or a contractor has been exposed to a scheduled carcinogenic substance, the operator must, as soon as practicable, notify the employee or contractor of that exposure.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (2) Subregulation (3) applies to an employee if it is likely that the employee has been, in the course of the employee's employment, exposed to a scheduled carcinogenic substance in, or in connection with, a circumstance mentioned in column 3 of Schedule 1 in relation to that substance.
 (3) On the termination of the employee's employment, the operator must provide the employee with a written statement that includes the following information:
 (a) the name of each scheduled carcinogenic substance to which the employee was, or was likely to have been, exposed;
 (b) the period of known exposure to the substance;
 (c) the period of likely exposure to the substance;
 (d) a copy of any relevant assessment report prepared under regulation 2.15;
 (e) details of how and where the employee can obtain any other relevant records;
 (f) the advisability of having periodic health assessments and the types of tests that are relevant.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.

2.21  Record keeping
 (1) If an assessment report prepared