Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017
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Schedule 2—Plant requiring registration of design
Regulations 106, 125 and 126
1.1 Pressure equipment, other than the following—
(a) pressure piping;
(b) miniature boilers designed in accordance with the AMBSC Code;
(c) gas cylinders or fired heaters with a hazard level equivalent to hazard level E as set out in AS 4343 Pressure equipment—Hazard levels.
1.2 Tower cranes, other than the foundations or supporting structure and the crane ties of the tower crane.
1.3 Self-erecting tower cranes.
1.4 Lifts, other than the following—
(a) platforms for raising or lowering stage performers and associated equipment;
(b) plant designed only to store vehicles in a designated parking facility;
(c) lifts designed to transport goods only, which do not have any operational controls within the lift car, including dumb waiters.
1.5 Building maintenance units.
1.6 Hoists with a platform movement of more than 2·4 metres, designed to lift persons.
1.7 Work boxes suspended from cranes.
1.8 Amusement structures to which AS 3533.1—Amusement rides and devices—Part 1: Design and construction applies, other than the following—
(a) amusement structures determined by AS 3533.1 to be class 1;
(b) amusement structures that are, or are intended to be, permanently installed and operated in playgrounds;
(c) water slides on which water facilitates users sliding easily, predominantly under gravity, along a static structure;
(d) water wave generators that prevent users from coming into contact with the machinery used to generate the waves;
(e) inflatable devices, unless they have a platform height (the height of the highest part of the device designed to support users) of 3 metres or more and rely on a supply of continuously blown air to maintain their shape;
(f) amusement structures that are specifically designed for a sporting, professional stunt, theatrical or acrobatic purpose or activity, including canoes operating on artificial currents;
(g) rides or devices that are primarily designed as a form of transport or motor sport, including hovercrafts, quad bikes and snow mobiles;
(h) jet packs and hover boards;
(i) go-karts;
(j) parasailing equipment;
(k) coin or token operated devices that are intended to be ridden, at the same time, by not more than 4 children who must be below the age of 10 years.
1.9 Prefabricated scaffolding, being an integrated system of prefabricated components manufactured in such a way that the possible geometry of assembled scaffolds is pre‑determined by the designer.