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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 36

Review of risk control measures

    (1)     An employer must review and, if necessary, revise any measures implemented to control an employee's exposure to noise—

        (a)     before any alteration is made to plant used or a system of work that is likely to result in exposure to noise above the noise exposure standard; or

        (b)     if the report by the person who conducts an audiological examination under regulation 38 states that the employee has suffered hearing loss that is likely to be due to exposure to noise; or

        (c)     after any incident occurs to which Part 5 of the Act applies that involves exposure to noise above the noise exposure standard; or

        (d)     if, for any other reason, the risk control measures do not adequately control noise exposure to a level at or below the noise exposure standard; or

        (e)     after receiving a request from a health and safety representative.

Note

Act compliance—section 21 (see regulation 7).

    (2)     A health and safety representative may make a request under subregulation (1)(e) if the health and safety representative believes on reasonable grounds that—

        (a)     any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (d) exists; or

        (b)     the employer has failed—

              (i)     to properly review the risk control measures; or

              (ii)     to take account of any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (d) in conducting a review of, or revising, the risk control measures.

Division 3—Audiometric tests and audiological examinations



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