(1) An employer must, as soon as reasonably possible after work is identified as lead-risk work, arrange for a registered medical practitioner to conduct a medical examination and biological monitoring of an employee engaged in that work if—
(a) the work was not identified as lead-risk work at the time the employee was first engaged in the work; and
(b) after the employee was engaged in the work, the work is identified as lead-risk work; and
(c) the employer had not, before the identification of the work as lead-risk work, provided for a medical examination or biological monitoring of the employee.
Notes
1 Act compliance—section 22(1) (see regulation 7).
2 See regulation 181.
(2) In this regulation the duties of an employer in relation to medical examinations and biological monitoring extend to an independent contractor.
Note
Act compliance—section 23 (see regulation 7).