New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2001 - REG 167

167 Employer to keep register of hazardous substances

(1) An employer must ensure that a register is kept and maintained for all hazardous substances used at the employer’s place of work.

(2) The employer must ensure that the register includes:

(a) a list of all hazardous substances used at the employer’s place of work, and

(b) the relevant MSDS (if any) for each of those hazardous substances, and

(c) any notations required under clause 168.

(3) The employer must ensure that the register is readily accessible to all employees who may be exposed to a hazardous substance while at the employer’s place of work.

(3A) The employer may keep and maintain a single register both for the purposes of this clause and for the purposes of clause 174ZW (Employer to keep register of dangerous goods).

(4) Subclauses (1)-(3) do not apply to a hazardous substance that is supplied to a retailer or retail warehouse operator in a consumer package holding less than 30 kilograms or 30 litres of the hazardous substance, that is intended for retail sale and that is not intended to be opened on the premises of the retailer or operator.

(5) A register compiled in accordance with clause 55 (2) and (3) of the Mines Inspection General Rule 2000 , as in force immediately before the commencement of this subclause, is taken to have been compiled under this clause.

Maximum penalty: Level 1.

Note: A principal contractor is required by clause 228 to keep a register of hazardous substances at a place of work at which construction work is carried out.