Obligation packs, VIC
Regulatory coverage in Victoria
The law that applies in Victoria, the hazard families the packs cover there, and how your own people decide which rules to switch on.
The law that applies
The governing instruments in Victoria, and who administers them.
- Act
- Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic)
- Regulations
- Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (Vic)
- Regulator
- WorkSafe Victoria
- Regime
- Occupational Health and Safety (non-harmonised)
Specific to Victoria
- Victoria has NOT adopted the model WHS framework. It runs the OHS Act 2004 (Vic) + OHS Regulations 2017 (Vic), with "crystalline silica process" controls inserted by the OHS Amendment (Crystalline Silica) Regulations.
- There is no model-WHS Schedule 14 / 30-usage-day statutory trigger in Victoria; the 30-day RPE default is a tenant-set risk-assessment threshold, supervised by the registered medical practitioner under the OHS Regulations.
What is covered
9 hazard families ship for Victoria, each written against the instruments above.
- Respirable crystalline silica
- Asbestos
- Noise
- Lead
- Welding fume
- Hand-arm and whole-body vibration
- Isocyanates
- Diesel particulate matter
- Hazardous chemicals
Also covered in Victoria: High-risk work licences, Working with children checks.
How the packs work
A pack is a set of rules, not a switch that turns compliance on.
Every rule cites its source
Each rule names the instrument and the provision it comes from, so your team can read it against the law as it stands.
Rules install switched off
A pack installs with every rule disabled. Someone in your organisation reads each one and opts it in, and can change its thresholds first.
You remain the duty-holder
Obliwise does not make the legal determination. It raises what your own settings say is required next, and keeps a record of what it raised and when.
Example: the Victoria silica pack
One pack in full, so you can see the shape of the others. Six rules, each with the record that triggers it and the citation behind it.
Workplace exposure standard 0.05 mg/m³ (8-hour time-weighted average).
RPE 30-day respirable-hazard health monitoring
A worker logs 30 distinct RPE usage-days on a respirable-hazard task.
Raises: A health-monitoring obligation (registered medical practitioner, baseline plus periodic) and an RPE fit-test renewal. The 30-day threshold is a tenant-tunable default set to your own risk assessment, not a fixed statutory number.
OHS Regs 2017 (Vic) Pt 4.1
Fires on a record
Crystalline-silica exposure-standard exceedance
A hygiene measurement on a silica programme returns above the Workplace exposure standard 0.05 mg/m³ (8-hour time-weighted average).
Raises: Health monitoring (spirometry, baseline plus periodic) for the exposed similar-exposure-group members, plus a record-retention obligation.
OHS Regs 2017 (Vic) Pt 4.1
Fires on a record
Silica exposure: control plan + air monitoring
A chemical exposure assessment is created for a respirable-crystalline-silica product.
Raises: A silica control-plan-required obligation and enrolment of the workplace in atmospheric (air) monitoring.
OHS Crystalline Silica Regs (Vic)
Fires on a record
RPE fit-test renewal due
An active RPE issuance's next fit-test date falls within the lead window (30 days by default).
Raises: A fit-test renewal obligation. Annual fit-testing is the common baseline, so tune the lead to your programme.
AS/NZS 1715:2009
Scheduled check
Chemical exposure reassessment due
An active exposure assessment's next review date falls within 30 days.
Raises: An exposure-reassessment obligation, so controls are revisited before the review lapses.
OHS Regs 2017 (Vic) Pt 4.1
Scheduled check
Health surveillance recall due
A worker's next health-surveillance date falls within 30 days.
Raises: A health-monitoring reminder. Scheduling only: it reads the recall date, never clinical results; the clinician owns the assessment.
OHS Regs 2017 (Vic) Pt 4.1
Scheduled check
Common questions about this pack
Who regulates crystalline silica exposure in Victoria?
WorkSafe Victoria administers the workplace health-and-safety duties for respirable crystalline silica in Victoria, under the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (Vic).
What is the workplace exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica in Victoria?
Workplace exposure standard 0.05 mg/m³ (8-hour time-weighted average). A result above the standard calls for a review of controls and, in Obliwise, raises a health monitoring duty for the people exposed.
Does Victoria require a silica control plan?
High-risk crystalline silica work is governed by OHS Amendment (Crystalline Silica) Regulations (silica risk control plan + air monitoring), which covers the silica control plan and air monitoring. Obligation rules install switched off, and a person turns each one on against their own reading of the current instrument.
How does Obliwise keep these obligations current?
Each rule names the legislative instrument and clause it comes from, and every change to a rule is kept as a new version. A rule tells you what the law requires next and records why. Your organisation remains the duty-holder; Obliwise keeps the record that shows what was raised, when, and what was done about it.
See a pack running against your own records.
Book a working session. We install the VIC pack in a test workspace, switch on one rule with you, and show the obligation being raised with the citation behind it.