Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Regulation 2017
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A site senior executive for a mine must arrange for respiratory health surveillance of a person who becomes, is or stops being a worker at the mine at the times stated in this division. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person whose current or previous exposure to hazards is shown by a risk assessment to create a risk to the person’s respiratory system so minimal that it can be managed effectively without respiratory health surveillance being carried out for the person. (sch.2E-sec.8-ssec.1) A site senior executive for a mine must arrange for respiratory health surveillance of a person who becomes, is or stops being a worker at the mine at the times stated in this division. (sch.2E-sec.8-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person whose current or previous exposure to hazards is shown by a risk assessment to create a risk to the person’s respiratory system so minimal that it can be managed effectively without respiratory health surveillance being carried out for the person.