Under the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011, PCBUs whose workers are exposed to hazardous chemicals, lead, asbestos or airborne contaminants must keep health and exposure monitoring records for at least 30–40 years. Clock starts: the record is made.
Health monitoring reports for exposed workers (30 years; asbestos 40 years) and air monitoring results (30 years).
4 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:
- Record must be identified as relating to the worker
- Record must be kept confidential
- Must be kept as a confidential record
- Must be identified as a record in relation to the worker
The law
Other terms that apply to these records
This page covers health and exposure monitoring records 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.
3 records. 3 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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