Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 164

    (1)     An employer must review and, if necessary, revise any measures implemented to control risks associated with hazardous substances at the workplace—

        (a)     before any alteration is made to systems of work that is likely to result in changes to risks associated with hazardous substances at the workplace; or

        (b)     if the employer receives advice from a registered medical practitioner under regulation 169(2)(c)(i) that adverse health effects have been identified by the health monitoring; or

        (c)     after any incident occurs to which Part 5 of the Act applies that involves a hazardous substance at the workplace; or

        (d)     if, for any other reason, the risk control measures do not adequately control the risks; or

        (e)     after receiving a request from a health and safety representative.

Note

Act compliance—sections 21 and 23 (see regulation 7).

    (2)     A health and safety representative may make a request under subregulation (1)(e) if the health and safety representative believes on reasonable grounds that—

        (a)     any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (d) exist; or

        (b)     the employer has failed—

              (i)     to properly review the risk control measures; or

              (ii)     to take account of any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (d) in conducting a review of or revising the risk control measures.