99Limitations on exposure to certain hazardous substances

99 Limitations on exposure to certain hazardous substances

(2) A person to whom this regulation applies must not allow a member of the workforce, under the person's control, to be exposed to an airborne concentration of a hazardous substance in the breathing zone of the member of the workforce at a level that exceeds the appropriate exposure standard for the relevant period of time.

(3) Subregulation (2) does not apply if the airborne concentration of the hazardous substance in the breathing zone of the member of the workforce is in accordance with an exemption given by NOPSEMA under regulation 101.

(4) In this regulation—

appropriate exposure standard means an airborne concentration for a substance as set out in the Adopted National Exposure Standards for Atmospheric Contaminants in the Occupational Environment;

hazardous substance means a substance—

(a) that is described in the List of Designated Hazardous Substances; or

(b) that has been determined, in writing, to be a hazardous substance by its manufacturer in accordance with the Approved Criteria for Classifying Hazardous Substances; or

(c) that is mentioned in Part 3 of Schedule 3.