Procedure
This Chemical Management procedure outlines the practical step-by-step instructions that all principals, delegates and school staff must follow to implement the Chemical Management policy. This procedure must be implemented in consultation with staff who are likely to be affected, the health and safety representative/s (HSR), where elected, and the health and safety committee or OHS working group (if established).
It contains the following chapters:
- Building and maintaining a chemical register
- Identifying dangerous goods and hazardous substances
- Assessing the risk
- Risk assessment for science experiments
- Controlling the risk
- Training and qualifications
- Developing safe work procedures
- Control considerations when developing safe work procedures
- Labelling of decanted or mixed chemicals
- Storage and signage (applicable to dangerous goods)
- Segregation (applicable to dangerous goods)
- Personal protective equipment (applicable to hazardous substances)
- Personal protective equipment in science and chemistry labs
- Controls for using pesticides and herbicides
- Safe application of pesticides
- Safe application of herbicides
- Health monitoring and exposure standards (applicable to hazardous substances)
- Procuring new products and chemicals
- Prohibited and restricted chemicals
- Maintaining safety data sheets
- Emergency management
- Hazardous waste disposal
- Labelling
Table of contents for the Chemical Management Procedure
Reviewed 28 July 2026