Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025
398Prohibition on eating, drinking and smoking
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398 Prohibition on eating, drinking and smoking
398 Prohibition on eating, drinking and smoking
(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must take all reasonable steps to ensure that a person does not eat, drink, chew gum, smoke or carry materials used for smoking in a lead process area at the workplace.
Maximum penalty—
(a) for an individual—73 penalty units, or
(b) for a body corporate—364 penalty units.
(2) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must provide workers with an eating and drinking area that, so far as is reasonably practicable, cannot be contaminated with lead from a lead process.
Maximum penalty—
(a) for an individual—43 penalty units, or
(b) for a body corporate—217 penalty units.