Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 319L

    (1)     An employer or a self-employed person must not perform high risk crystalline silica work unless—

        (a)     a crystalline silica hazard control statement is prepared for the work before the work commences; and

        (b)     the work is performed in accordance with that statement.

Note

Act compliance—sections 21, 23 and 24 (see  regulation 7).

    (2)     If high risk crystalline silica work is not performed in accordance with a crystalline silica hazard control statement prepared under subregulation (1), the employer or self-employed person must—

        (a)     stop that work immediately or as soon as it is safe to do so; and

        (b)     not resume the work until the statement is—

              (i)     complied with; or

              (ii)     reviewed and, if necessary, revised in accordance with regulation 319M.

Note

Act compliance—sections 21, 23 and 24 (see  regulation 7).

    (3)     For high risk crystalline silica work that is high risk construction work, if a safe work method statement prepared under regulation 327 addresses the matters required by a crystalline silica hazard control statement—

        (a)     preparation of that safe work method statement is sufficient compliance with the requirement to prepare a crystalline silica hazard control statement; and

        (b)     compliance with that safe work method statement is sufficient compliance with a crystalline silica hazard control statement in relation to the risk to health or safety of exposure to crystalline silica dust.

Reg. 319M inserted by S.R. No. 137/2021 reg. 7.