Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1991 (WA)

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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE ACT 1984 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE AMENDMENT

REGULATIONS (No. 2) 1991

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.    These regulations may be cited as the Occupational Health, Safety and

Welfare Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1991.

Principal regulations

2. In these regulations, the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Regula-
tions 1988* are referred to as the principal regulations.
[*Published in the Gazette of 16 September 1988 at pp. 3767-3911. For amend-
ments to March 1991 see p. 313 of 1989 Index to Legislation of Western Australia

and Gazettes of 6 July, 12 October and 23 November 1990 and 4 January 19911

Regulation 103 amended
3. Regulation 103 of the principal regulations is amended in subregulation (1)

by deleting the definition of "exposure standard".

Regulation 322 amended

4. Regulation 322 of the principal regulations is amended—

(a) by repealing subregulation (2) and substituting the following subregu- lotions—

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(2) An employer shall ensure that no person at the workplace is exposed to an atmospheric contaminant in a concentration that exceeds the exposure standard for the contaminant specified in Worksafe Australia's National Exposure Standards (NOHSC: 1003(1991)).

(2a) Notwithstanding subregulation (2), an employer shall en- sure that no person at the workplace is exposed to—

(a)	vinyl chloride in a concentration that exceeds 1 part per million parts of air by volume; or
(b)	respirable quartz in a concentration that exceeds 0.1 milligrams per cubic metre of air,

as an average over a work period of 8 hours.

(2b) Where an inspirable dust or a respirable dust is not within the scope of Worksafe Australia's National Exposure Standards (NOHSC: 1003(1991)), an employer shall ensure that no person at the workplace is exposed to—

(a)	an inspirable dust that, when measured in accordance with AS-3640, exceeds 10 milligrams per cubic metre of air; or
(b)	a respirable dust that, when measured in accordance with AS-2985, exceeds 5 milligrams per cubic metre of air,

Respirable Dust "; and

as an average over a work period of 8 hours. ";

(b) in subregulation (3) by deleting "subregulation (2)" in both places where it occurs and substituting the following-

" subregulations (2), (2a) and (2b) "; and

(c) in subregulation (4) by inserting after "(2)" the following-

" , (2a), (2b) ".

Regulation 749 amended
5. Regulation 749 of the principal regulations is amended in subregulation (1)
by deleting "that the exposure standard for any atmospheric contaminant

referred to in Schedule 3 is not exceeded" and substituting the following-

" compliance with regulation 322 ".

Schedule 1 amended

6. Schedule 1 to the principal regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after item 45, the following item- " 45A AS 2985-1987 Workplace Atmospheres—Method for Sam-

pling and Gravimetric Determination of

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(b)	by inserting after item 46, the following item-
" 47 AS 3640-1989 Workplace Atmospheres—Method for Sam- pling and Gravimetric Determination of In- spirable Dust ".

Schedule 3 repealed

7. Schedule 3 to the principal regulations is repealed.

By His Excellency's Command,

L. M. AULD, Clerk of the Council.