WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
368Duty to provide health monitoring
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368 Duty to provide health monitoring health monitoring is provided to a worker carrying out work for the business or undertaking if: (a) the worker is carrying out ongoing work at a workplace using, handling, generating or storing hazardous chemicals and there is a significant risk to the worker's health because of exposure to a hazardous chemical referred to in Schedule 14, table 14.1, column 2; or (b) the person identifies that because of ongoing work carried out by a worker using, handling, generating or storing hazardous chemicals there is a significant risk that the worker will be exposed to a hazardous chemical (other than a hazardous chemical referred to in Schedule 14, table 14.1) and either: (i) valid techniques are available to detect the effect on the worker's health; or (ii) a valid way of determining biological exposure to the hazardous chemical is available and it is uncertain, on reasonable grounds, whether the exposure to the hazardous chemical has resulted in the biological exposure standard being exceeded. Notes for regulation 368
Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 285 2 The biological exposure standard is published by Safe Work Australia.