New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 405

405 Duty to provide health monitoring before first commencing lead risk work

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that health monitoring is provided to a worker--

(a) before the worker first commences lead risk work for the person, and

(b) 1 month after the worker first commences lead risk work for the person.

: 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) If work is identified as lead risk work after a worker commences the work, the person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure that health monitoring of the worker is provided--

(a) as soon as practicable after the lead risk work is identified, and

(b) 1 month after the first monitoring of the worker under paragraph (a).

: Maximum penalty--

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

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