Health monitoring when you work with hazardous chemicals: Guide for workers
Safe Work Australia
This guide will help you to understand and make decisions about the health monitoring your PCBU is legally required to give you. As a worker, you don’t have health monitoring duties under the WHS laws. In this guide we describe what duty holders, like PCBUs, must do to provide health monitoring under the WHS laws.
We use ‘must’, ‘requires’ or ‘mandatory’ where duty holders are legally required to comply with a requirement. We use ‘should’ to recommend an action and ‘may’ where they can choose to do as we recommend.
There are other guides for PCBUs and doctors that you can read if you wish:
• Health monitoring guide for persons conducting a business or undertaking
• Health monitoring guide for registered medical practitioners, and
• Health monitoring guides for hazardous chemicals.
Contents:
Health Monitoring When You Work With Hazardous Chemicals
Introduction
How To Use This Guide
What The WHS Regulations Say About Health Monitoring
What Is Health Monitoring?
Before You Start Working With Hazardous Chemicals
While You Are Working With Hazardous Chemicals
After You Finish Working With Hazardous Chemicals
How Will I Know If I Need Health Monitoring For My Job?
Asbestos
Lead Risk Work
When Do I Need Health Monitoring?
What Does ‘Significant Risk To My Health’ Mean?
Who Monitors My Health?
Who Pays For Health Monitoring?
Will I Be Asked About My Health Monitoring?
What Is A Health Monitoring Report And What Is In It?
What If My Results Show I Have Been Exposed To Hazardous Chemicals Or Have An Injury, Illness Or Disease?
Who Can See My Health Monitoring Records?
How Long Are My Records Kept For?
Do I Have To Do Health Monitoring?
More Information
Hazardous Chemicals That Need Health Monitoring
Examples Of Chemicals That May Need Health Monitoring
