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Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022
Part 5Plant and structures
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Chapter 5 — Plant and structures
Part 5.1 — General duties for plant and structures
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Application of Part to plant 212
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Application of Part to structures 212
Division 2 — Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that design plant
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Provision of information to manufacturer 212
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Hazard identified in design during manufacture 213
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Guarding 214
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Operational controls 216
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Emergency stop controls 217
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Warning devices 218
Division 3 — Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that manufacture plant
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Control of risk 218
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Guarding 220
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Information must be obtained and provided 221
Division 4 — Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that import plant
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Information to be obtained and provided by importer 221
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Control of risk 222
Division 5 — Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that supply plant
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Information to be obtained and provided by supplier 223
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Supply of second‑hand plant: duties of supplier 223
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Second‑hand plant to be used for scrap or spare parts 224
Division 6 — Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that install, construct or commission plant or structures
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Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that install, construct or commission plant 224
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Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that install, construct or commission structures 225
Division 7 — General duties of a person conducting a business or undertaking involving the management or control of plant
Subdivision 1 — Management of risks
- Management of risks to health and safety 226
Subdivision 2 — Additional control measures for general plant
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Control of risks arising from installation or commissioning 226
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Preventing unauthorised alterations to or interference with plant 227
Proper use of plant and controls 228
Guarding and insulation from heat and cold 231
Maintenance and inspection of plant 234
Subdivision 3 — Additional control measures for certain plant
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Powered mobile plant: general control of risk 234
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Powered mobile plant: specific control measures 235
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Roll‑over protection on tractors 236
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Not used 237
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Industrial lift trucks 237
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Plant that lifts or suspends loads 238
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Exception: plant not specifically designed to lift or suspend a person 240
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Plant used in connection with tree lopping 241
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Industrial robots 241
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Lasers 242
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Pressure equipment 243
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Scaffolds 244
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Plant with presence‑sensing safeguarding system: records 247
Part 5.2 — Additional duties relating to registered plant and plant designs
Division 1 — Application of Part
Division 2 — Duty of person conducting a business or undertaking who designs plant to record plant design
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Records and information 248
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Record of standards or engineering principles used 249
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Records to be available for inspection 249
Division 3 — Duties of a person conducting a business or undertaking
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Duty of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that manufacture plant 250
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Duty of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that import plant 250
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Duty of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that supply plant 251
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Duty of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that commission plant 251
Division 4 — Duties of a person conducting a business or undertaking involving the management or control of plant
Subdivision 1 — Control measures for registered plant
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Major inspection of registered mobile cranes and tower cranes 252
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Lifts 253
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Records of plant 254
Subdivision 2 — Control measures for amusement devices and passenger ropeways
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Operation of amusement devices and passenger ropeways 255
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Storage of amusement devices and passenger ropeways 256
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Maintenance, inspection and testing of amusement devices and passenger ropeways 257
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Annual inspection of amusement devices and passenger ropeways 257
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Log book and manuals for amusement devices 259
Part 5.3 — Registration of plant designs and items of plant
Division 1 — Plant designs to be registered
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Plant design to be registered 260
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Altered plant designs to be registered 261
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Recognition of designs registered by corresponding regulator 261
Division 2 — Items of plant to be registered
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Items of plant to be registered 262
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Recognition of plant registered by corresponding regulator 263
Division 3 — Registration process for plant designs
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Application of Division 263
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Who can apply to register a plant design 263
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Application for registration 263
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Design verification statement 264
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Who can be the design verifier 265
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Duty of design verifier 265
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Design verification statements not to be made in certain circumstances 266
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Additional information 266
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Decision on application 266
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Refusal of registration: process 268
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Conditions of registration 268
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Duration of registration of plant design 269
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Plant design registration number 269
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Registration document 270
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Registration document to be available 270
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Disclosure of design information 271
Division 4 — Registration process for an item of plant
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Application of Division 271
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Who can apply to register an item of plant 272
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Application for registration 272
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When is a person competent to inspect plant 273
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Additional information 273
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Decision on application 274
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Refusal of registration: process 275
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Conditions of registration 276
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Day when registration takes effect 276
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Plant registration number 276
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Registration document 277
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Registration document to be available 277
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Not used 278
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Not used 278
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Not used 278
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Not used 278
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Not used 278
Division 5 — Changes to registration and registration documents
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Application of Division 278
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Changes to information 278
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Amendment of registration imposed by regulator 279
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Amendment on application by registration holder 280
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Minor corrections to registration 282
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Regulator to give amended registration document 282
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Registration holder to return registration document 282
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Replacement registration document 283
Division 6 — Cancellation of registration
288A. Application of Division 284
288B. Regulator may cancel registration 284
288C. Cancellation process 284
288D. Registration holder to return registration document 285