The placard and manifest guide

When more than a set quantity of hazardous chemicals is kept at a workplace, placards, a manifest and telling the regulator can be needed. The guide adds up what's in your register for each site (or your own premises) and compares it with the quantities that apply in its state, now and If every container were at its most kept.

How to read it

1. 1Step 1: Open Chemicals, then Placard and manifest guide.
2. 2Step 2: Each site (or your premises) shows its state and the table used, and a line saying whether anything is over a placard or manifest quantity.
3. 3Step 3: Totals by dangerous goods class lists what's kept, in kg or L (items can't be added up).
4. 4Step 4: The table shows each row that applies: Kept now, At the most, Placard quantity and Manifest quantity. A figure marked Over placard or Over manifest is more than that quantity.
5. 5Step 5: Not counted lists anything the guide can't place, so you can fix it (add its class, or record it in litres or kilograms).
6. 6Step 6: Open How this is worked out for the readings used and the sources.

Which rules it uses

• Victoria: the Dangerous Goods (Storage and Handling) Regulations 2022, Schedule 2, by dangerous goods class and packing group. Over a manifest quantity, WorkSafe Victoria must be told within 3 business days (r 64).
• NSW, Queensland, SA, Tasmania, the ACT and the NT: the model WHS Regulations, Schedule 11, by GHS class and category (r 347 to 350). Check the figures with your regulator for states whose text we couldn't read.
• WA: no figures yet. Check with the WA regulator.

Common questions

• Why is a chemical under Not counted? It has no class recorded for that state's table, or it's counted in items rather than litres or kilograms.
• What does At the most mean? The total if every place held its Most kept amount.
• Is mL or g counted? Yes: mL and g are counted as L and kg.