Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 363

363 Control of risks from storage or handling systems

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that a system used at the workplace for the use, handling or storage of hazardous chemicals—

(a) is used only for a purpose for which it was designed, manufactured, modified, supplied or installed; and

(b) is operated, tested, maintained, installed, repaired and decommissioned having regard to the health and safety of workers and other persons at the workplace.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(2) The person must ensure that sufficient information, training and instruction is given to a person who operates, tests, maintains or decommissions a system used at a workplace for the use, handling or storage of hazardous chemicals for the activity to be carried out safely.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

Example—

information provided at a training course