Workplace Health Safety QLD Act Amendment

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Workplace Health Safety QLD Act Amendment
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• A Council of Australian Governments review into
  work safety laws will consider reducing a range
  of administrative requirements including
  registration of certain items of plant and
  asbestos health monitoring record keeping
  requirements.

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• Until the Queensland Government can consider the
  reviews recommendations, commencement of a new
  five yearly registration renewal period for items
  of plant such as lifts, cranes and pressure
  vessels will be postponed and the current annual
  renewal period maintained until 1 January 2016.

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• The commencement date for mandatory asbestos
  health monitoring requirements will also be
  extended until 1 January 2016.

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• In addition, the transitional arrangement
  permitting holders of high risk work licences for
  non-slewing mobile cranes to also operate a reach
  stacker will be extended until 31 December 2015.

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• As consideration is being given to reach stackers
  no longer being a separate class of high risk
  work, the transitional arrangement has been
  extended to avoid disruption for industry.

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• Download the Work Health and Safety Amendment
  Regulation (No. 1) 2014 and explanatory notes
  at https//www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/SLS
  /RIS_EN/2014/14SL238E.pdf   look for SL No.238
  of 2014.

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