New eforms introduced for hazardous chemical notifications
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) has now introduced a new notification process using eForms.
The eForms provide guidance material and tips to help users and make the process easier to follow. Each eForm also refers to the WHS regulatory provision rather than using a form number to help users identify the best form to use.
Hazardous chemical notifications to WHSQ help protect work and public health and safety by enabling proactive risk-based regulation of certain high hazard workplaces, such as, service stations, fuel depots, warehousing and transport depots, cold stores, chemical manufacturing and storage facilities, gas depots, power stations, water and sewage treatment plants, bitumen plants rural chemical suppliers and distributors, and major hazard facilities.
Notifications also include the requirement to notify of abandoned underground fuel tanks under WHS laws.
To ensure you have the required information available to make a notification for a manifest quantity of hazardous chemicals, you will need to refer to the following documents to support an accurate and compliant notification. This includes:
- a copy of the manufacturer/importer Safety Data Sheet (SDS) to source information on GHS hazard class and categories (section 2), and where applicable, information on Proper Shipping Name, UN number, and Packing Group (section 14), and CAS Number/s (section 3).
- storage container details including their ID codes, capacities (internal volume), and types which may be available from your manifest and hazardous chemicals register.
- a current copy of the manifest (an electronic version must be uploaded as part of the notification).
- a current copy of the hazardous chemicals register to identify those at the workplace (note, only those in quantities that require a placard need to be included in the manifest and the notification).
Access the Hazardous chemical eForms below:
- Notification of a manifest quantity workplace (s348) – formerly Form 73
- Notification of an abandoned tank (s367) – formerly Form 72
- Notification of a facility exceeding 10% of schedule 15 threshold (s536) – formerly Form 69.
More information
Find out more about hazardous chemical notifications, other work health and safety duties and obligations and whether you need to notify the regulator.