Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 319B

    (1)     Subject to subsection (2), a crystalline silica process consists of one or more of the following processes carried out at a workplace—

        (a)     the use of a power tool or other form of mechanical plant to—

              (i)     cut, grind, polish or crush material containing crystalline silica; or

              (ii)     carry out any other activity involving material containing crystalline silica that generates crystalline silica dust;

        (b)     the use of a roadheader on an excavated face if the material in the face contains crystalline silica;

        (c)     a process that exposes a person to crystalline silica dust arising from the manufacture or handling of material that contains crystalline silica;

        (d)     the mechanical screening of crushed material containing crystalline silica;

        (e)     a quarrying process involving material containing crystalline silica;

        (f)     a tunnelling process involving material containing crystalline silica;

        (g)     a process determined by the Authority under regulation 6(1)(oa) to be a crystalline silica process.

Reg. 319B(2) inserted by S.R. No. 63/2024 reg. 7(2).

    (2)     A process that is an engineered stone process is not a crystalline silica process.

Reg. 319C substituted by S.R. Nos 137/2021 reg. 7, 63/2024 reg. 8.