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Guidance materials
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to isocyanates.
Isocyanates are a group of highly reactive, organic compounds of the formula R-N=C=O.
Examples of work with isocyanates include work where you release isocyanates as…
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Page last updated: 07 Mar 2022
09 July 2012 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide to manage the risks of isocyanates at your workplace.
Isocyanates are hazardous chemicals used in manufacturing materials, like:
polyurethane foams
rubbers
plastics
varnishes
adhesives
paints. …
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Page last updated: 07 Mar 2022
12 April 2012 |
Guidance materials
Advice on the application of workplace exposure standards for airborne contaminants in the workplace.
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Page last updated: 29 Nov 2021
11 December 2013 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide if you work with refractory ceramic fibres (RCF) or high biopersistence fibres and need to manage the health and safety risks to workers.
RCFs are a form of man-made fibre most commonly used as high-performance thermal insulators. They …
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
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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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
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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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
04 April 2013 |
Public comment
Public submissions closed on 28 September 2012.
The zip file contains the documents and public submissions received during the consultation process.
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
14 June 2018 |
Guidance materials
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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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
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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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
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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