Group 12 element steel components. Mercury is used primarily for the manufacture of industrial chemicals or for electrical and electronic applications. It is used in some thermometers, especially ones which are used to measure high temperatures. A still increasing amount is used as gaseous mercury in fluorescent lamps, while most of the other applications are slowly phased out due to health and safety regulations, and is in some applications replaced with less toxic but considerably more expensive Galinstan alloy. Mercury and its compounds have been used in medicine, although they are much less common today than they once were, now that the toxic
Safety in Australia codes of practice Codes of Practice are developed to give practical guidance on how the requirements of the Workplace Health & Safety Act 2011 and Workplace Health & Safety Regulation 2011. Codes of Practice are very important documents; The codes of practice are admissible in court as evidence of whether a duty has been complied with. They’ll also provide evidence of what is known about a particular hazard or risk in control measures and can also be relied on determining what is reasonably practicable. Those codes of practice really set the benchmark and you can choose to follow that code