208Guarding

208 Guarding (1) This regulation applies if guarding is used as a control measure in relation to plant at a workplace. (2) The person with management or control of the plant must ensure (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 Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 161 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 guarding 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. (3) The person with management or control of the plant must ensure that the guarding: (a) is of solid construction and securely mounted so as to resist impact or shock; and (b) makes bypassing or disabling of the guarding, whether deliberately or by accident, as difficult as is reasonably (c) does not create a risk in itself; and (d) is properly maintained. (4) If the plant to be guarded contains moving parts that may break or cause workpieces to be ejected from the plant, the person with management or control of the plant must ensure, so far as is Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 162 reasonably practicable, that the guarding will control any risk from those broken or ejected parts and workpieces. (5) Despite anything to the contrary in this regulation, the person with management or control of the plant 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 guarding is removed, that, so far as is reasonably