66Managing risks to health and safety

66 Managing risks to health and safety (1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must manage, in accordance with Part 3.1, risks to health and safety associated with a confined space at a workplace including risks associated with entering, working in, on or in the vicinity of the confined space (including a risk of a person inadvertently entering the confined space).

Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 78 risk assessment is conducted by a competent person for the purposes of subregulation (1). (3) The person must ensure that a risk assessment conducted under subregulation (2) is recorded in writing. (4) For the purposes of subregulations (1) and (2), the person conducting a business or undertaking must have regard to all (a) whether the work can be carried out without the need to enter the confined space; (b) the nature of the confined space; (c) if the hazard is associated with the concentration of oxygen or the concentration of airborne contaminants in the confined space – any change that may occur in that concentration; (d) the work required to be carried out in the confined space, the range of methods by which the work can be carried out and the proposed method of working; (e) the type of emergency procedures, including rescue procedures, required.

Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 79 (5) The person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that a risk assessment under this regulation is reviewed and as necessary revised by a competent person to reflect any review and revision of control measures under Part 3.1.