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Clear filters09 March 2012 |
Guidance materials
This guide helps MHF operators make sure they give workers the necessary information, training and instructions to allow them to work safely at an major hazard facility (MHF).
This guide will help with the operator’s duty to let workers know:
what…
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09 March 2012 |
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This guide gives major hazard facility (MHF) operators information on how to write, put in place and test an emergency plan for their MHF. The regulator will ask for this when MHF operators apply for an MHF license.
An emergency plan limits the effect…
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09 March 2012 |
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This guide gives MHF operators information on how to write a safety case outline for their facility.
A strong outline will help operators write a safety case that meets the requirements in Chapter 9 – Major hazard facilities of the model WHS …
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01 January 2005 |
Guidance materials
Developed to provide laboratories and analysts with a consistent methodology for the sampling and analysis of airborne asbestos fibres in workplaces.
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12 April 2012 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide if your workplace carries out electroplating.
It can also be used by workplaces undertaking:
anodizing or hot-dip galvanizing
electroless plating
metal finishing.
Electroplating work uses hazardous chemicals, live electrical…
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10 February 2016 |
Guidance materials
This policy statement outlines labelling requirements for agricultural and veterinary (AgVet) chemicals under the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations.
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14 June 2018 |
Guidance materials
This document outlines the criteria to assign a skin notation to a chemical.
A skin notation (Sk) is an advisory notation to the workplace exposure standards (WES).
This Sk notation alerts you to the risk of chemicals being absorbed through the skin…
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14 June 2018 |
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This document is about a new notation for ‘immediately dangerous to life or health’ (IDLH) in the workplace exposure standards (WES).
An IDLH notation will indicate an airborne chemical concentration that can either:
cause death
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14 June 2018 |
Guidance materials
This information is on the workplace exposure standard (WES) for non-threshold based genotoxic carcinogens. It helps you:
identify this type of chemical
calculate a minimal cancer risk.
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14 June 2018 |
Guidance materials
This document identifies appropriate domestic and international sources that support the WES review.
You can find more information in:
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