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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 319ZF

Engineered stone control plan required

    (1)     An engineered stone licence holder must—

        (a)     prepare an engineered stone control plan in accordance with subregulation (2) before work that requires an engineered stone licence is undertaken; and

        (b)     ensure that the work is performed in accordance with the engineered stone control plan.

    (2)     An engineered stone control plan must—

        (a)     identify the work undertaken by the licence holder that requires an engineered stone licence; and

        (b)     state the hazards and risks associated with that work; and

        (c)     sufficiently describe measures to control those risks; and

Notes

1     Regulation 163 sets out the duty of an employer to control risks associated with silica dust produced or generated at a workplace. See also regulation 154.

2     Subdivision 3 of Division 3 of this Part imposes duties on employers and self‑employed persons to implement specific measures to control risks associated with engineered stone.

        (d)     describe how the risk control measures are to be implemented; and

        (e)     be set out and expressed in a way that is readily accessible and comprehensible to the persons who use it.

    (3)     If work that requires an engineered stone licence is not performed in accordance with the engineered stone control plan for that work, 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 engineered stone control plan is—

              (i)     complied with; or

              (ii)     reviewed and, if necessary, revised in accordance with subregulation (4).

    (4)     An engineered stone licence holder must review and, if necessary, revise the engineered stone control plan if there is an indication that risk control measures (including risk control measures required under Part 4.1 and Subdivision 3 of Division 3 of this Part) are not controlling the risks adequately, including after any incident that occurs while working with engineered stone.

    (5)     An engineered stone control plan is not required if—

        (a)     a crystalline silica hazard control statement has been prepared in accordance with regulation 319D; and

        (b)     the crystalline silica hazard control statement addresses the matters required for the engineered stone control plan.

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



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