Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 319ZC

    (1)     This regulation applies if, immediately before 1 July 2024, an employer—

        (a)     was the holder of an engineered stone licence within the meaning of regulation 5 as in force immediately before that day; and

        (b)     was required to ensure that health monitoring was carried out for an employee by—

              (i)     a specialist occupational and environmental physician; or

              (ii)     a specialist respiratory and sleep medicine physician.

    (2)     If, on or after 1 July 2024, the employer is required under regulation 169 to ensure that health monitoring is carried out for an employee described in subregulation (1)(b), the employer must ensure that health monitoring for that employee is carried out under the supervision of—

        (a)     a specialist occupational and environmental physician; or

        (b)     a specialist respiratory and sleep medicine physician.

Note

Act compliance—section 22 (see regulation 7).

    (3)     In this regulation—

"specialist occupational and environmental physician" means a person who is registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as a medical practitioner (other than as a student) in the specialty of occupational and environmental medicine;

"specialist respiratory and sleep medicine physician" means a person who is registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as a medical practitioner (other than as a student) in the specialty of physician in the field of specialty practice of respiratory and sleep medicine.

Reg. 319ZD substituted by S.R. No. 63/2024 reg. 12.