New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2001 - REG 69

69 Isolation or control of potentially hazardous services-particular risk control measures

An employer must ensure that no person enters a confined space unless all potentially hazardous services that are normally connected to the confined space are isolated or otherwise controlled so as to prevent:

(a) the introduction of any materials, contaminants, agents or conditions that may be harmful to a person occupying the confined space, or

(b) the activation or energising in any way of equipment or services that may pose a risk to the health or safety of a person inside the confined space.

Maximum penalty: Level 4.