New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 341

341 Labelling hazardous chemicals--general requirement

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that a hazardous chemical used, handled or stored at the workplace is correctly labelled in accordance with clause 335.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--70 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--345 penalty units.

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to a hazardous chemical--

(a) supplied before 1 January 2017 that was, at the time it was supplied, labelled in accordance with the National Code of Practice for the Labelling of Workplace Substances [NOHSC: 2012 (1994)[#93] as in force at that time, or

(b) supplied before 1 January 2023 that was, at the time it was supplied, labelled in accordance with GHS 3, or

(c) manufactured or imported before 1 January 2023 that was, at the time it was manufactured or imported, labelled in accordance with GHS 3.

Note--: Clause 338 applies if the chemical is being supplied to another workplace.