Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) (National Standards) Regulations (Amendment) Jurisdiction Australia Year 1995 Published in English Source Australian Government Publishing Service, GPO Box 84, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia, 1995. 57p. Also in: Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, 6 Nov. 1995. Serial number Statutory Rules 1995 No.337 Descriptors [Primary] Australia, confined spaces, dangerous substances, hazard evaluation, hazard identification [Secondary] arsenic, asbestos, cadmium, isocyanates, law, mercury, methylenebis(2-chloroaniline), organophosphorus compounds, pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, silica, warning notices Subject category General safety, health and conditions of work Abstract Amendments to the 1994 Regulations (see CIS 96-393, previous amendments CIS 96-394). The principal modifications concern: hazard identification and risk assessment; control of risk after a risk assessment has been made; new part on hazardous substances (including definitions, determination of a substance as a hazardous substance, duties concerning Material Safety Data Sheets, labelling, ingredient disclosure, provision of information by employers, register of hazardous substances, risk assessment, instruction and training, risk control, atmospheric monitoring, health surveillance); new part on confined spaces. In schedules: changes in prohibited uses of hazardous substances (involving PCBs); health surveillance for specific kinds of hazardous substances (MOCA, acrylonitrile, asbestos, cadmium, crystalline silica, inorganic arsenic, inorganic mercury, isocyanates, organophosphate pesticides, PAHs, thallium, vinyl chloride). CIS No. 96-1174 Database ID 67223