Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 400

400 Laundering, disposal and removal of personal protective equipment

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that personal protective equipment that is likely to be contaminated with lead dust—

(a) is sealed in a container before being removed from the lead process area; and

(b) so far as is reasonably practicable, is disposed of on the completion of the lead process work at a site equipped to accept lead-contaminated equipment; and

(c) if it is not reasonably practicable to dispose of the personal protective equipment that is clothing—

(i) is laundered at a laundry, whether on-site or off-site, equipped to launder lead-contaminated clothing; or

(ii) if it is not practicable to launder the clothing—is kept in the sealed container until it is re-used for lead process work; and

(d) if it is not reasonably practicable to dispose of the personal protective equipment that is not clothing—

(i) is decontaminated before it is removed from the lead process area; or

(ii) if it is not practicable to decontaminate the equipment in the lead process area—is kept in the sealed container until it is re-used for lead process work.

Example—

work boots

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(2) The person must ensure that a sealed container mentioned in subsection (1) is decontaminated before being removed from the lead process area.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

Note—

Section 335 also requires the container to be labelled to indicate the presence of lead.

(3) The person must take all reasonable steps to ensure that clothing contaminated with lead-dust is not removed from the workplace unless it is to be—

(a) laundered in accordance with this section; or

(b) disposed of.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.