Factories, Shops and Industries Act 1962 Regulation relating to a notice to be displayed where cyanide is stored (1992-196) [GG No 51 of 24.4.1992] (NSW)

1992—No. 196

FACTORIES, SHOPS AND INDUSTRIES ACT 1962—

REGULATION

(Relating to a notice to be displayed where cyanide is stored)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 51 of 24 April 1992]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Factories, Shops and Industries Act 1962, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

JOHN FAHEY

Minister for Industrial Relations and

Minister for Further Education,

Training and Employment.

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 1 July 1992.

Amendment

2. The Factories (Health and Safety) Electroplating Regulation 1988 is

amended by omitting the second paragraph of the notice set out in
Schedule 1 and by inserting instead the following paragraph:

Doctors, nurses and paramedics must familiarise themselves with the areas and processes in the plant where cyanide is used or stored, with the signs and symptoms of cyanide poisoning and with the treatment for both mild and severe cases of cyanide poisoning. They must be trained in the use of emergency first-aid treatment of cyanide poisoning, including the insertion and maintenance of indwelling venous cannulas.

1992—No. 196

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Regulation is to amend the Factories (Health and Safety) Electroplating Regulation 1988 so as to substitute, in a notice that must be displayed where cyanide is stored or kept, a reference to a paramedic in place of a reference to the holder of a first-aid certificate issued by one of a number of specified organisations.