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12.—(1) Where an employer undertakes work which is liable to expose an employee to inhalable dust, he shall provide that employee with suitable and sufficient information, instruction and training.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the information, instruction and training provided under that paragraph shall include—
(a)the risk which exposure to inhalable dust presents to health;
(b)the relevant exposure control limits;
(c)the significant findings of the risk assessment;
(d)the appropriate precautions and actions to be taken by the employee in order to safeguard himself and other employees at the workplace;
(e)if the exposure control limit for respirable dust or the exposure control limit for quartz is exceeded, provision forthwith of all relevant sampling results to the employee or his representative; and
(f)the collective results of any health surveillance undertaken in accordance with regulation 11 in a form calculated to prevent those results from being identified as relating to a particular person.
(3) The information, instruction and training required by paragraph (1) shall be—
(a)adapted to take account of significant changes in the type of work carried out or methods of work used by the employer; and
(b)provided in a manner appropriate to the level, type and duration of exposure identified by the risk assessment.
(4) The employer shall ensure that any person (whether or not his employee) who carries out work in connection with the employer’s duties under these Regulations has suitable and sufficient information, instruction and training.
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