529CBSilica risk control plan required for processing of CSS that is high risk

529CB Silica risk control plan required for processing of CSS that is high risk

[Regulation 529CB Inserted by S.R. 2024, No. 36, Applied:01 Sep 2024]

(1)  A person conducting a business or undertaking who is carrying out the processing of a CSS that is high risk must, before the processing commences, ensure that a silica risk control plan for the processing –

(a) is prepared; or

(b) has already been prepared by another person.

Penalty:  In the case of –

(a) an individual, a fine not exceeding $6 000; or

(b) a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $30 000.

(2)  A silica risk control plan must –

(a) identify all the processing carried out at the workplace that is high risk; and

(b) for all processing that is high risk and carried out at the workplace, document the following information:

(i) the specific processing that will be undertaken;

(ii) the form or forms of crystalline silica present in the CSS;

(iii) the proportion of crystalline silica contained in the CSS, determined as a weight/weight (w/w) concentration;

(iv) the hazards associated with the work, including the likely frequency and duration of a worker’s exposure to respirable crystalline silica;

(v) whether the airborne concentration of respirable crystalline silica that is present at the workplace is reasonably likely to exceed half the workplace exposure standard;

(vi) the reasons why the processing has been assessed as being high risk; and

(c) document what control measures will be used to control the risks associated with the processing that is high risk and how those measures will be implemented, monitored and reviewed; and

(d) document results of any relevant air and health monitoring previously undertaken at the workplace; and