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to and how long they are exposed to it.
Lastly, personal hearing protection must be provided to protect workers from any remaining risk.
Further guidance about controlling noise in the workplace is available at Code of Practice: Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work.

3.8 Lead
Lead can become an airborne contaminant when soldering and welding materials. A welder may be exposed to lead when welding on steel painted with leaded paints, on leaded steel, flame cutting of batteries and materials contaminated with lead (for example, old automotive mufflers).
The major risk associated with lead is lead poisoning (plumbism). This affects the blood system and can cause anemia. Other symptoms include abdominal pain, convulsions, hallucinations, coma, weakness, tremors and the possible increased risk of cancer. Lead exposure can also affect both male and female reproductive systems. A developing foetus is particularly at risk, especially
in the early weeks before a pregnancy becomes known.
Under the WHS Regulations a process by which electric arc, oxyacetylene, oxy gas, plasma arc or a flame is applied for welding, cutting or cleaning, to the surface of metal coated with lead or paint containing more than 1 per cent by dry weight of lead metal is defined as a lead process.
This means certain requirements in the  WHS Regulations apply including identifying  lead risk work and removing a worker from lead risk work in certain circumstances.

Regulation 395: A person conducting a business or undertaking that carries out lead processes must provide information about the lead process to:
    * a person who is likely to carrying out the lead process, before they are engaged; and
    * a worker, before they commence carrying out the lead process.
If work is identified as lead risk work after a worker commences the work, the person conducting
a business or undertaking must give information about the lead process to the worker as soon
as practicable after it is identified as lead risk work and before health monitoring of the worker
is provided.
The information that must be given is about the health risks and toxic effects associated with exposure to lead. If the lead process involves lead risk work, information must also be given
on the need for and details of health monitoring.

Control measures
    * The WHS Regulations require you to:
    * ensure so far as is reasonably practicable that lead is confined to a lead process area
      at the workplace and that, the lead process area is kept clean
    * ensure that methods used to clean a lead process area do not create a risk to health of persons in the immediate vicinity or have the potential to spread the contamination of lead
    * take all