Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01055:front:0:p14
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01055
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 33813–36808

practicable to prevent the exposure—adequately controlled in order to minimise the risks to health caused by the substance.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (3) An operator must take all reasonably practicable steps to prevent or control exposure to a hazardous substance by measures other than the provision of personal protective equipment.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (4) If measures undertaken in accordance with subregulation (3) do not prevent, or provide adequate control of, exposure of an employee or a contractor to a hazardous substance, the operator must, in addition to taking the measures, make available to the employee or contractor suitable personal protective equipment that will adequately control the employee's or contractor's exposure to the hazardous substance.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (5) An operator must ensure that engineering controls, safe work practices and personal protective equipment that are used to prevent or control exposure to a hazardous substance are properly maintained and used.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.

2.17  Atmospheric monitoring
Note: Monitoring may be used to determine the effectiveness of control measures. Further guidance on monitoring can be found in the National Code of Practice for Control of Workplace Hazardous Substances [NOHSC:2007 (1994)].
 (1) If a risk assessment carried out under regulation 2.15 indicates that atmospheric monitoring should be undertaken, the operator to whom the assessment relates must undertake monitoring using procedures that are suitable for measuring exposure to the hazardous substance that is subject to monitoring.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (2) The operator must ensure that the results of the atmospheric monitoring are recorded in the register mentioned in subregulation 2.13(1).
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (3) The operator must ensure that:
 (a) an employee or a contractor who has been, or could be, exposed to a hazardous substance that is subject to atmospheric monitoring is given the results of the monitoring; and
 (b) the records of atmospheric monitoring are readily accessible to that employee or contractor at all reasonable times.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.

2.18  Health surveillance
Note: Health surveillance can assist in minimising the risk to health from hazardous substances by confirming that the absorbed dose is below the acceptable level, by indicating biological effects requiring reduction of exposure and by collecting data to evaluate the effects of exposure. Further guidance on health surveillance can be found in the National Code of Practice for Control of Workplace Hazardous Substances [NOHSC:2007 (1994)] and in the Guidelines for Health Surveillance [NOHSC:7039 (1995)].
 (1) An operator must provide health surveillance of an employee or a contractor who has been identified, in a risk assessment carried out under regulation 2.15, as being exposed to a hazardous substance if:
 (a) there is a significant risk to the health of the employee or contractor from a