Hazardous Substance Management (chemicals) in your area

Cost Centre Hazardous Substances Managers

The Cost Centre Hazardous Substances Managers are responsible for coordinating the management of hazardous substances within their Cost Centre. The Hazardous Substances Managers are responsible for:

• ensuring that when supervisors notify them of hazardous substances, those substances are entered on the register of hazardous substances;
• compiling a Cost Centre register of hazardous substances. The Cost Centre register must be updated regularly;
• ensuring that each hazardous substance used, stored and (where applicable) produced by the Cost Centre for supply has a current Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) which is kept on file in the Cost Centre register of hazardous substances;
• ensuring that any substance that a supervisor imports directly from outside Australia into the Cost Centre is accompanied by an MSDS from the supplier and is entered on the register;
• ensuring that the supervisor of the area importing a substance directly is aware of the need for it to be classified according to the Approved Criteria for Classifying Hazardous Substances.

• Hazardous Substances Management Policy.
• Hazardous and Dangerous Substances Risk Assessment Guidelines
• Guidelines for the Storage and Segregation of Hazardous Substances in Laboratories and Workshops
• Hazardous Substances Risk Assessments for Administrative Areas
  • Risk Assessment Samples
  • MSDS

The following staff members are hazardous substances managers (HSM) in your area. Please contact your area HSM for information on matters relating to management of hazardous substances in your work place.

Updated: 23 June 2008