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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
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189 Guarding
(1) This regulation applies if a designer of plant uses guarding as a
control measure.
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(2) The designer must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that
the guarding designed for that purpose will prevent access to the
danger point or danger area of the plant.
(3) The designer must ensure that:
(a) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is not
plant – the guarding is a permanently fixed physical barrier; or
(b) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is
plant – the guarding is an interlocked physical barrier that
allows access to the area being guarded at times when that
area does not present a risk and prevents access to that area
at any other time; or
(c) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in
paragraph (a) or (b) – the guarding used is a physical barrier
that can only be altered or removed by the use of tools; or
(d) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in
paragraph (a), (b) or (c) – the design includes a
presence-sensing safeguarding system that eliminates any
risk arising from the area of the plant requiring guarding while
a person or any part of a person is in the area being guarded.
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(4) The designer must ensure that the guarding is designed:
(a) to be of solid construction and securely mounted so as to
resist impact or shock; and
(b) to make bypassing or disabling of the guarding, whether
deliberately or by accident, as difficult as is reasonably
(c) so as not to cause a risk in itself.
(5) If the plant to be guarded contains moving parts and those parts
may break or cause workpieces to be ejected from the plant, the
designer must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the
guarding will control any risk from those broken or ejected parts and
workpieces.
(6) Despite anything to the contrary in this regulation, the designer
must ensure:
(a) that the guarding is of a kind that can be removed to allow
maintenance and cleaning of the plant at any time that the
plant is not in normal operation; and
(b) if the guarding is removed, that, so far as is reasonably
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