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Regulations is provided unless:
    * an equal or better type of health monitoring is available, and
    * the use of that other type of monitoring is recommended by a registered medical practitioner with experience in health monitoring.
Health monitoring is not an alternative to implementing control measures. If the results indicate
that a worker is experiencing adverse health effects or signs of exposure to a hazardous chemical, the control measure must be reviewed and if necessary revised.

A person conducting a business or undertaking must:
    * inform workers and prospective workers about health monitoring requirements
    * ensure health monitoring is carried out by or under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner with experience in health monitoring
    * consult workers in relation to the selection of the registered medical practitioner
    * pay all expenses relating to health monitoring
    * provide certain information about a worker to the registered medical practitioner
    * take all reasonable steps to obtain a report from the registered medical practitioner as soon as practicable after the monitoring has been carried out
    * provide a copy of the report to the worker and the regulator if the report contains adverse test results or recommendations that remedial measures should be taken. Also provide the report to all other persons conducting a business or undertaking who have a duty to provide health monitoring for the worker
    * keep reports as confidential records for at least 30 years after the record is made
      (40 years for reports relating to asbestos exposure), and
    * not disclose the report to anyone without the worker's written consent unless required
      to under the WHS Regulations.
The WHS Regulations also contain specific requirements relating to health monitoring for lead.
If a worker is carrying out lead risk work, health monitoring must be provided to a worker before
the worker first commences lead risk work and one month after the worker first commences lead risk work.

Further information on health monitoring can be found in the Health Monitoring for Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals – Guide for Workers and Health Monitoring for Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals – Guide for Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking.

3.  SPECIFIC HAZARDS AND CONTROL MEASURES

    3.1 Prohibited and restricted chemicals

The WHS Regulations prohibit and restrict the use of some hazardous chemicals as abrasive material in an abrasive blasting process.

Regulation 381: A person conducting a business or undertaking must not use, handle or store, or direct a worker to use, handle or store the hazardous chemicals listed in table 1 for abrasive blasting.

Table 1 Restricted hazardous chemicals

Any substance that contains greater than:
    * 1 % free silica (crystalline silicon dioxide)
    * 0.1 % antimony
    * 0.1 % arsenic