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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
216Roll-over protection on tractors
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216 Roll-over protection on tractors
(1) The person with management or control of a tractor at a workplace
must ensure that the tractor is not used unless it is securely fitted
with a roll-over protective structure.
(2) If a tractor is used in a place that is too low for the tractor to work
while it is fitted with a roll-over protective structure, the structure
may be lowered or removed for the period during which the tractor
is used in such a situation (but only if other measures to minimise
the risk of roll-over are in place).
(3) This regulation does not apply if the tractor is:
(a) installed in a fixed position, and in a manner which would no
longer permit it to be used as powered mobile plant; or
(b) a tractor with a mass of less than 560 kg or a mass of
15 000 kg or more; or
(c) being used for a historical purpose or activity.
historical purpose or activity, in relation to the use of a tractor,
includes an activity ancillary to a historical activity.
Examples for definition historical purpose of activity
1 Historical activity: a historical display, parade, demonstration or
re-enactment.
2 Activity ancillary to a historical activity: restoring, maintaining, modifying or
housing a tractor used, or to be used, for a historical activity.
Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 169
roll-over protective structure means a structure designed to
protect a tractor operator from injury if the tractor rolls over in any
direction.
Note for regulation 216
Regulations 214 and 215 also apply to a tractor.