28Review of risk control measures

28 Review of risk control measures

(1) An employer must review and, if necessary, revise any measures implemented to control risks under regulation 27—

(a) before any alteration is made to any thing, process or system of work involving hazardous manual handling, including a change in the place where that work is undertaken; or

(b) if new or additional information about hazardous manual handling becomes available to the employer; or

(c) if an occurrence of a musculoskeletal disorder at a workplace is reported by or on behalf of an employee; or

(d) after any incident occurs to which Part 5 of the Act applies that involves hazardous manual handling; or

(e) if, for any other reason, the risk control measures do not adequately control the risks; or

(2) A health and safety representative may make a request under subregulation (1)(f) if the health and safety representative believes on reasonable grounds that—

(a) any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (e) exists; or

(ii) to take account of any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (e) in conducting a review of, or revising, the risk control measures.

Part 3.2—Noise

Division 1—Duties of designers, manufacturers and suppliers of plant

29 Designers

A designer of plant must, by taking noise emission and exposure into account, design the plant so that its sound power level is as low as is reasonably practicable.