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OCCUPATIONAL SAFEW AND HEALTH (USE AND STANDARDS OF EXPOSURE OF CHEMICALS HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH) REGULATIONS
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OBJECTIVE
Describe the rationale of USECHH 2000 To define the application of USECHH 2000 To list at least 6 Part in USECHH 2000
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SCOPE
'. Rationale of the Regulations Salient Provision . Application . Definition of "USE" . Definition of "CHH' . Exemption . Employers Duties ' Conclusion . Guidelines under USECHH Regulations
RATIONALE
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Legal framework for the employer to control hazardous chemicals Set workplace exposure standard Promote excellence management of chemical hazardous to health Prevent the occurrence of occupational diseases, poisoning or adverse health effect
The USECHH 2000 is the sixth set of regulations make under the OSHA 1994 (ACT
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SALIENT PROVISION
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Paft
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Preliminary
. . Paft V: Action to Control Exposure . Part VI: Labelling and Relabelling Paft VII: ' Training Information, Instruction and
Part II: Identification of Chemicals Hazardous to Health Part III: Assessment of Risk to Health
SALIENT PROVISION
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Paft VIiI: Monitoring of Exposure at the Place of Work Paft IX; Health Surveillance Part X: Medical Removal Protection Paft XI: Warning Sign Part XII: Record Keeping
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Schedule
I: List of Permissible
Exposure Limit
Schedule II: List of Chemicals for Which Medical Surveillance is Appropriate Schedule
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APPLICATION
All places of work within the purview of the OSH Act 1994 where chemicals hazardous to health are used.
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APPLICANON
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Defined as radioactive materials under the Atomic Energy Licensing Act 1984
Foodstuffs Hazardous to health solely by virtue of their explosive or flammable properties, or solely because they are at a high or low temperature or a high pressure and Pharmaceutical Products
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DEFINITION OF USE
means production, processing, handling, storage, transport, disposal and treatment
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DEFINITION OF CHH
v is listed in Schedule I or II v possesses any of the properties categorised in Paft B of Schedule I of the Occupational Safety and Health (Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Hazardous Chemicals)
Regulations 1997 v comes within the definition of "pesticide" under the Pesticides Act 1994 v is listed in the First Schedule of the Environmental Quality (Schedule Wastes) Regulations 1989
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RadioactiveMaterial
Foodstuffs
PharmaceuticalProducts
Hazardous to Health Solely by Virtue of
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Explosive or Flammable Propefties, or At a High or Low Temperature or Pressure
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EMPLOYERS DUTIES
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Monitoring of exposure at the place of work Health surveillance Medical remgval protection Warning sign
Record keeping
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List of all chemicals hazardous to health use Current Chemical Safety Data Sheet Average quantity use
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PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LIMIT
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EMPLOYER
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ASSESSMENT:
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Employee/any other person appointed by employer and registered with D.G of DOSH to conduct assessment
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the potential risk to an employee as a result of exposure to chemicals hazardous to health v the methods and procedure adopted in the use of chemicals hazardous to health v the nature of the hazard to health v the degree of exposure to such chemicals v the risk to health created by their use and their release from work processes v measures and procedures required to control the exposure of an employee to chemicals hazardous to health
the measures, procedures, and equipment necessary to control any accidental emission of a chemical hazardous to health as a result of leakage, spillage, or process or equipment
failure monitoring programme
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Within 1 month of receiving the assessment report from the assessor, the employer shall take action to control exposure as recommended by the assessor This may include changes in work processes, practices, procedures or plant or engineering control equipment to reduce the exposure level to the lowest practicable level,
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Elimination of chemicals hazardous to health from the workplace Substitution of less hazardous chemicals for
chemicals hazardous to health
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f) . Isolation of the work to control the emission , of chemicals hazardous to health [? . Modification of the process parameters $ ' Application of engineering control equipment
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CONTROL MEASURES
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Rdoption of safe work systems and practices that eliminate or minimise the risk to health Provision of approved personal protective equipment, Employer shall ensure that all safe work systems and practices are documented and implemented Employer shall ensure that all safe work systems and practices are reviewed whenever there is a significant change to the process/ equipment, materials or control measures installed.
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LABELLING AND RELABELLING (REGULAION 20)
chemicals supplied
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Used within normal shift is relabelled with chemical name or trade name as written on the original label If the chemicals used in a testing chemical laboratory the container shall be relabelled whether or not the contents are used within a normal workshift Container need not be relabelled if the chemical hazardous to health is used immediately
For the purpose of this regulation, "labelling" and "relabelling" means labelling or
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relabelling according to: Y CPL Regulations 1997 or v Pesticides Act 1974 or Cc) v EQA (Schedule Wastes) Regulations 1989
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Once in 2 years
job assignment
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Must be given by employer to employee & any person who carries out any work connected to the employer involving chemical hazardous to health.
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Chemical hazardous to health received without label and CSDS not to be used until such information is obtained.
. CSDS or Copy: - Kept close to chemical work area - Easily assessible to emploYees
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Employer required to ensure: The maintenance of control measures is adequate Carried out using approved method and
analysis Exposed to Schedule
II chemical hazardous
Record Keeping:
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indicate by assessment result, employee exposed or likely to be exposed Carryout by OHD Exposed to Schedule II - 12 months interval
or less
Record keeping 30 years Maintained for inspection Employees allowed to access health surveillance records after notice
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Employees with detected medical condition/at increased risk to health must be removed Shall not allow pregnant or breast feeding employee who is exposed to chemical hazardous to health to work when notified by
OHD/medical practitioner Return to former job when: no longer with detected medical condition No longer pregnant/breast feeding Record kept
(o) v warning signs are posted at a conspicuous place at every entrance of the area to
warn persons entering the area of the
hazards.
Cb: " other relevant information are given to persons who may be or are likely to be at
risk of being affected by the chemical
hazardous to health
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RECORD KEEPING
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- Engineering
control
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PENALry
Non-compliance to Regulation:
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Registration of Assessor, Hygiene Technician and Occupational Health Doctor Guidelines for the Preparation of a Chemical Register
. Control of Chemical Hazardous to Health . Guidelines on Medical Surveillance . Assessment of the Health Risks Arising from
the Use of Hazardous Chemicals in the
Workplace
CONCLUSION
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