South Australian Current Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 636

636—Ensuring exposure standards for dust not exceeded

        (1)         The mine operator of a mine must ensure that no person at the mine is exposed to 8-hour time-weighted average atmospheric concentrations of airborne dust that exceed—

            (a)         for respirable dust—3.0 mg per cubic metre of air;

            (b)         for inhalable dust—10.0 mg per cubic metre of air.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         in the case of an individual—$6 000;

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

        (2)         The Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne Contaminants apply in relation to a concentration referred to in subregulation (1)(a) or (b) as if that concentration were an exposure standard referred to in those Standards.

        (3)         In subregulation (1)—

"inhalable" has the same meaning as in the Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne Contaminants ;

"respirable" has the same meaning as in the Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne Contaminants ;

8-hour time-weighted average has the same meaning as in the Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne Contaminants .