Manufacturers and suppliers
Manufacturers, importing suppliers and suppliers have specific duties in relation to hazardous substances used at workplaces.
If you are a manufacturer or importing supplier of a substance for use in a workplace, you must:
- determine whether the substance is hazardous
- prepare an MSDS
- review and revise the MSDS
- label containers of the hazardous substance
- disclose a chemical name to a registered medical practitioner in certain circumstances.
Manufacturers, importing suppliers and suppliers must provide a current MSDS to any person to whom the substance is supplied and to any employer on request. It must be supplied before the hazardous substance is used for the first time at a workplace.
If you are a supplier, you must also ensure that containers of hazardous substances are labelled.
You must not supply carcinogenic substances to anyone who does not hold a licence to use them.
