Hazardous Substances Assessment

Under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011, a Person Conducting a Business or undertaking (PCBU) must manage risks associated with: 

  • Using hazardous chemicals at a workplace;
  • Handling hazardous chemicals at a workplace;
  • Generating hazardous chemicals at a workplace; or
  • Storing hazardous chemicals at a workplace. 

Regulation 32-38 of the WHS Regulation 2011 state; In order to manage these risks, a PCBU must:

  1. Identify reasonably foreseeable hazards that could give rise to the risk;
  2. Eliminate the risk so far as is reasonably practicable;
  3. If it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate the risk – minimise the risk so far as is reasonably practicable by implementing control measures in accordance with the hierarchy of risk control;
  4. Maintain the implemented control measure so that it remains effective; and
  5. Review, and if necessary, revise all risk control measures so as to maintain, so far as is reasonably practicable, a work environment that is without risks to health and safety. 

As part of Aloha Consulting’s OHSMS and ERDMS, specific records, registers and risk assessments are provided so you can mitigate all risks, so far as is reasonably practicable, with regard to hazardous substances in your workplace. 

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More Information:

  • [NOHSC:1008(2004)] Classifying Hazardous Substances
  • CoP Managing Risks of Hazardous Substances in the Workplace
  • CoP Preparation of Safety Data Sheets for Hazardous Chemicals
  • Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
  • [NOHSC:2012(1994)] Labelling of Workplace Substances 

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