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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 209

Control risk of exposure—person who manages or controls workplace

    (1)     A person who manages or controls a workplace—

        (a)     must, so far as is reasonably practicable, eliminate the exposure of persons at the workplace to airborne asbestos fibres; or

        (b)     if it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate that exposure, must reduce that exposure so far as is reasonably practicable.

Note

Act compliance—section 26 (see regulation 7).

    (2)     Without limiting subregulation (1), a person who manages or controls a workplace must ensure that a person at the workplace is not exposed to an atmospheric concentration of asbestos fibres in excess of the asbestos exposure standard.

Note

Act compliance—section 26 (see regulation 7).

    (3)     A person who manages or controls a workplace must ensure that a determination of an employee's exposure to airborne asbestos fibres at the workplace is carried out if there is uncertainty (based on reasonable grounds) as to whether the asbestos exposure standard has been exceeded.

Note

Act compliance—sections 21 and 26 (see regulation 7).

    (4)     A person who manages or controls a workplace must ensure that copies of the results of atmospheric monitoring are readily accessible to an employer at the workplace.

Note

Act compliance—section 26 (see regulation 7).



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