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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 351

351—Management of risks to health or safety

        (1)         A person conducting a business or undertaking must manage, in accordance with Chapter 3 Part 1, risks to health and safety associated with using, handling, generating or storing a hazardous chemical at a workplace.

Note—

WHS Act—see section 19 (see regulation 9).

        (2)         In managing risks the person must have regard to the following:

            (a)         the hazardous properties of the hazardous chemical;

            (b)         any potentially hazardous chemical or physical reaction between the hazardous chemical and another substance or mixture, including a substance that may be generated by the reaction;

            (c)         the nature of the work to be carried out with the hazardous chemical;

            (d)         any structure, plant or system of work—

                  (i)         that is used in the use, handling, generation or storage of the hazardous chemical; or

                  (ii)         that could interact with the hazardous chemical at the workplace.



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