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Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1995

Jurisdiction Australia - South Australia
Year 1995
Published in English
Source Internet document, 1995. Various paginations.
Online availability [English] http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/Catalog/legislation/Regulations/o/1995.12.un.htm,
[English] http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_reg/ohsawr1995445/
Descriptors [Primary] Australia, South Australia, occupational safety and health
[Secondary] asbestos, dangerous substances, law, lead, responsibilities, synthetic fibres
Subject category General safety, health and conditions of work
Abstract Regulations issued under the authority of the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986 (see CIS 90-1404). Contents: preliminary (responsibilities under the regulations, general principles for implementation of the regulations [responsibilities of employers and employees]); general workplace OSH measures (access and egress, amenities, buildings and their precincts, confined spaces, electricity, emergency facilities and procedures, fire prevention, lighting, manual handling, noise, occupational health and first aid, personal protection, prevention of falls, isolated work, storage, traffic control, ventilation, cleanliness and hygiene); plant (duties of designers, owners and self-employed persons; general requirements for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control; registration of plant design and items of plant; amusement structures); hazardous substances (with particular attention to MSDSs, asbestos, lead, synthetic mineral fibres, exposure standards); hazardous work (abrasive blasting, demolition, diving, electroplating, excavation work, foundries, logging, spray painting, welding, construction work, petroleum work, mining work, opal mining); administration (health and safety representatives and committees, competency requirements, notification of certain kinds of work and occurrences). Schedules. The Regulations revoke the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1986 (see CIS 94-5)
CIS No. 04-8
Database ID 103144

 

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