New South Wales Repealed Acts

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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2000 - SECT 34

34 Regulations: specific miscellaneous powers

Regulations may be made for or with respect to the following:

(a) regulating or prohibiting:

(i) the design, manufacture, supply or use of any plant, and

(ii) the design, manufacture, supply, storage, transport or use of any substance, and

(iii) the carrying on of any process or the carrying out of any activity,

(b) requiring persons to identify, assess and deal with the risks to the health and safety of persons arising from work (including risks arising from the place of work or from any plant or substance for use at work),

(c) designating the persons (whether employers, self-employed persons, principal contractors or other persons) who are to be responsible for compliance with the obligations imposed by the regulations,

(d) requiring a person, before commencing to carry out work of a particular kind at a place of work, to give WorkCover or other persons notice of the proposed work in accordance with the regulations,

(e) requiring persons, in any circumstances involving a risk to their health, to undergo a biological, hearing or other test,

(f) requiring persons to not eat, drink or smoke in any circumstances involving a risk to their health,

(g) measures for detecting and investigating cases in which the health of persons has been affected, including medical examinations, the making of biological, hearing or other tests and the notification of absences from work,

(h) the making, keeping and inspection of records of matters relating to risks to health and the furnishing of returns and information relating to those matters, including returns and information relating to medical examinations and to biological, hearing or other tests,

(i) the analysis of any substance,

(j) the fees chargeable or payable for doing any act or providing any service in connection with this Act or the regulations,

(k) forms for the purposes of this Act or the regulations,

(l) the manner of serving notices under this Act or the regulations,

(m) the review of actions and determinations of an inspector or other person,

(n) any information to be provided to any person by an inspector or other person exercising functions under this Act,

(o) any matter relating to occupational health and safety with respect to which regulations may be made under the associated occupational health and safety legislation.