sec.139Safety switches, including portable safety switches

sec.139 Safety switches, including portable safety switches

The person conducting the business or undertaking must not use, or allow to be used, a safety switch unless it complies with AS/NZS 3760 (In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment and RCDs) when tested. The person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure each safety switch, other than a portable safety switch, at the workplace— is tested by a competent person in accordance with AS/NZS 3760 immediately after it is connected; and is tested in accordance with, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760. The person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure each portable safety switch at the workplace— is tested by pushing the test button on the safety switch immediately after it is connected; and is tested in accordance with, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760. If a safety switch is not working properly, the person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure— a durable tag is immediately attached to the safety switch that warns people not to use the safety switch; and the safety switch is immediately withdrawn from use. Subsections (1) to (4) are linked to the electrical safety duty in section 30 of the Act (see section 7 (1) ). (sec.139-ssec.1) The person conducting the business or undertaking must not use, or allow to be used, a safety switch unless it complies with AS/NZS 3760 (In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment and RCDs) when tested. (sec.139-ssec.2) The person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure each safety switch, other than a portable safety switch, at the workplace— is tested by a competent person in accordance with AS/NZS 3760 immediately after it is connected; and is tested in accordance with, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760. (sec.139-ssec.3) The person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure each portable safety switch at the workplace— is tested by pushing the test button on the safety switch immediately after it is connected; and is tested in accordance with, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760. (sec.139-ssec.4) If a safety switch is not working properly, the person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure— a durable tag is immediately attached to the safety switch that warns people not to use the safety switch; and the safety switch is immediately withdrawn from use. Subsections (1) to (4) are linked to the electrical safety duty in section 30 of the Act (see section 7 (1) ).

• (a) is tested by a competent person in accordance with AS/NZS 3760 immediately after it is connected; and
• (b) is tested in accordance with, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760.
• (a) is tested by pushing the test button on the safety switch immediately after it is connected; and
• (b) is tested in accordance with, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760.