Chemical Management

3. Obtain safety data sheets

The principal and/or their delegate must ensure current Safety Data Sheets (SDS) from the manufacturer or supplier are maintained and accessible in the relevant work areas. Current means first prepared, or reviewed, within the last 5 years.

The SDS obtained for each dangerous good and hazardous chemical must be the authorised version prepared by the manufacturer or first supplier within Australia. Where a SDS has not been provided by the manufacturer or supplier, a SDS can be obtained from the Chemwatch SDS library.

The principal and/or their delegate must ensure the Chemical Register and associated SDS are kept in a suitable location which is known, and accessible to all employees in the school, as well as any other relevant party who is likely to be exposed to the dangerous goods and/or hazardous chemicals.