Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01055:front:0:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01055
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Character Range: 18607–21361

is necessary to ensure that it contains current information and is accurate in all material respects; and
 (b) if the MSDS does not contain current information or is not accurate in all material respects—revise the MSDS so that it contains current information and is accurate in all material respects.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (5) A manufacturer of a hazardous substance that the manufacturer knows, or ought reasonably to know, will be used by employees or contractors at a workplace must give a copy of the current MSDS for the substance to a supplier who supplies the substance to the operator of the workplace:
 (a) before the substance is first supplied by the supplier to the operator; and
 (b) at any later time on request by the supplier.
Penalty: 10 penalty units

2.05  Material Safety Data Sheets: Supplier's duties
  A supplier of a hazardous substance that the supplier knows, or ought reasonably to know, will be used by employees or contractors at a workplace must give a copy of the current MSDS for the substance to the operator of the workplace:
 (a) not later than the time at which the substance is first supplied by the supplier to the operator; and
 (b) at any later time on request by the operator.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
Note: For hazardous substances that are in use but supplied before this regulation commences, see Division 5.

2.06  Labelling of hazardous substances
 (1) A supplier of a hazardous substance that the supplier knows, or ought reasonably to know, will be used by employees or contractors at a workplace must ensure that, at the time of supply:
 (a) each container in which the hazardous substance is supplied is labelled; and
 (b) the label:
 (i) is in accordance with the National Code of Practice for the Labelling of Workplace Hazardous Substances [NOHSC:2012 (1994)]; and
 (ii) clearly identifies the hazardous substance; and
 (iii) sets out the name, and Australian address and telephone numbers (including an emergency number), of the manufacturer of the substance; and
 (iv) sets out the substance's risk phrases and safety phrases and any relevant health and safety information about the substance that is reasonably practicable for the supplier to provide.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
Note 1: The manner in which a container is to be labelled is set out in the National Code of Practice for the Labelling of Workplace Hazardous Substances [NOHSC:2012 (1994)].
Note 2: For hazardous substances that are in use but supplied before this subregulation commences, see Division 5.
 (2) Strict liability applies to subparagraph (1)(b)(i).

2.07  Provision of information by a supplier
  A supplier of a hazardous substance that the supplier knows, or ought reasonably to know, will be used by employees