Under the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011, PCBUs that use, handle or store hazardous chemicals must keep hazardous chemicals register and safety data sheets: keep current / 5 years.
The register of hazardous chemicals, current safety data sheets, and records of supplying restricted carcinogens.
3 provisions of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 apply to these records. Each one is set out below.
The terms
Conditions and exceptions Caution
From the provisions:
- Does not apply to hazardous chemicals in transit (unless significant/frequent presence) or certain consumer products
- Hazardous chemical in transit (unless significant or frequent presence at workplace)
- Consumer product not requiring a safety data sheet under regulation 344
- Applies unless subregulation (4) exclusions apply
- Does not apply to hazardous chemicals covered by subregulation (4)
The law
Other terms that apply to these records
This page covers hazardous chemicals register and safety data sheets on their own. The same file is often caught by other laws as well, with different periods and start dates. See why a legal term is not a schedule.
2 records. 2 sets of rules. They don't agree.
One business file can hold all of these at once.
Now do that for every record your organisation holds, and redo it when the law changes. ScheduleOne has done that work, and keeps it current.
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