Compliance Code: Managing Exposure to Crystalline Silica - Engineered Stone - Victoria

Description

You can use this compliance code as a practical guide for how to meet your occupational health and safety duties and obligations in relation to managing exposure to crystalline silica.

The information in this compliance code is particularly relevant if you are an employer or self-employed person who works with engineered stone, or a manufacturer, importer or supplier of engineered stone. The code provides information on the duties for manufacturers, importing suppliers and suppliers of engineered stone. It provides examples and tools that you can apply to your own workplace.

If you comply with this code, you are deemed to comply with the Act or Regulation duty covered by the code. However, this code is not mandatory and duty holders may choose to use some other way to achieve compliance.

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.

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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