Compliance Code: Lead - Victoria

Description

You may use this compliance code as a practical guide for how to meet your occupational health and safety duties and obligations while working with lead or lead products.This applies to workplaces where lead processes are undertaken. Lead processes are activities that generate lead dust, mist or fumes. This code provides practical measures for the elimination or reduction of exposure to lead.

This compliance code is particularly relevant if you are an employer or self-employed person who works with lead. It is also relevant for employees and health and safety representatives who work with lead.

Compliance with this code is not mandatory. If you have not complied with the code, it will be up to you to show that you have met the relevant legal requirements by an alternative method.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Other resources

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Act(s) name

Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 Victoria

Regulation(s) name

Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 Victoria

Administering agency

Department of Treasury and Finance

WorkSafe Victoria

Contact details

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