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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 reasonable steps to ensure that a person does not eat, drink, chew gum, smoke
      or carry materials used for smoking in a lead process area
    * provide and maintain clean changing rooms, washing, showering and toilet facilities
    * provide workers with eating and drinking facilities that, so far as is reasonably practicable, cannot be contaminated with lead from a lead process
    * ensure that workers remove clothing and equipment that is or likely to be contaminated
      with lead and wash their hands and faces before entering an eating or drinking area.

The WHS Regulations also specify control measures for the laundering, disposal and removal of personal protective equipment that is likely to be contaminated with lead dust.

There are also specific notification requirements under the WHS Regulations for notifying the regulator within 7 days that lead risk work is being undertaken.

3.9 Other hazards

Confined spaces
Regulation 64: A person conducting a business or undertaking must manage the risks to health and safety associated with a confined space at a workplace including risks associated with entering, working in, on or in the vicinity of a confined space (including a risk of a person inadvertently entering the confined space).
Hazards that may be encountered in a confined space include:
    * heat and fumes generated by welding
    * chemical agents including combustible gases or vapours, toxic gases or vapours, combustible or toxic liquids or solids, or potentially explosive dusts
    * oxygen deficiency or excess
    * physical agents including thermal extremes, radiation, noise or flooding.
Further guidance on how to work safely in confined spaces is available in the Code of Practice: Confined Spaces and section 4.1 of this Code.

Falls
Regulation 78: A person conducting a business or undertaking must manage the risks to health and safety associated with a fall by a person from one level to another that is reasonably likely to cause injury to the person or any another person.
The WHS Regulations require the following specific control measures to be implemented where it is reasonably practicable to do so:
    * carry out the work on solid construction, that includes a safe means of access and egress
    * if a fall risk cannot be eliminated, minimise the risk by providing and maintaining a safe system of work including:
       * using fall prevention devices (for example, temporary work platforms and guard railing)
       * work positioning systems (for example, fire resistant/flame proof industrial rope access systems), or
       * fall arrest systems