Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Part 1 Preliminary
   1.      Citation
   2.      Interpretation
           Part 2 Responsibilities under Regulations
   4.      Employers
   5.      Workers
   6.      Self-employed persons
   7.      Occupiers of workplaces
   8.      Owners of buildings
   9.      Designers of plant or structures
   10.     Manufacturers
   11.     Importers and suppliers
   12.     Installers and erectors of plant or structures
   13.     Owners of plant
   14.     Joint responsibilities
           Part 3 Licences
   15.     Licence required to perform certain work
   16.     Application for licence
   17.     Grant of licence
   18.     Change of name or address
   19.     Renewal of licence
   20.     Replacement of licence
   21.     Cancellation, suspension or variation of licence
   22.     False or misleading statement in application
   23.     Trainees and unlicensed persons
   24.     Number of people who may be supervised
   25.     Approval to perform work
           Part 4 Certain work to be notified
   26.     Work to be notified
           Part 5 Registered agencies
   27.     Training providers
   28.     Assessors
   29.     Design verifier
   33.     Inspector of designated plant
   34.     Application for registration
   35.     Registration
           Part 5A Work groups, health and safety representatives and health and safety committees
           Division 1 Definitions
   35A.    Definitions
           Division 2 Work groups
   35B.    Agreement establishing work group
   35C.    Variation of agreement
           Division 3 Health and safety representatives
   35D.    Returning officer
   35E.    Notice of election day
   35F.    Nomination
   35G.    Voting
   35H.    Election
   35J.    Termination of health and safety representative's term of office
   35K.    Employer must provide facilities and assistance to health and safety representative
           Division 4 Health and safety committees
   35L.    Functions assigned to health and safety committee
           Part 6 General obligations
           Division 1 General obligations in relation to workplace hazards
   36.     Compliance with codes of practice
   38.     Hazard identification and risk assessment
   39.     Risk management
   39A.    Hazardous activities
   39B.    Content of risk management plan
   40.     Maintenance of control measures
   41.     Monitoring
   42.     Health surveillance
   43.     Information, instruction and training
   44.     Consultation
   45.     Records
           Division 2 Reportable incidents
   46.     Incidents classified as reportable incidents
           Part 7 Workplace
           Division 1 Work areas
   47.     Access and egress
   47A.    prevention of falls
   48.     Work space
   49.     Housekeeping
   50.     Safety signs
   51.     Floors
   52.     First aid
   53.     Fire control
   54.     Workplace amenities
           Division 2 Work environment
   55.     Airborne contaminants
   56.     Noise
   57.     Lighting
   58.     Exposure to certain risks
           Division 3 Work practices
   59.     Manual handling
   60.     Ergonomics
           Division 3A Confined space
   61.     Design, manufacture and supply of confined space
   61A.    Control of risks resulting from entry to a confined space
           Division 4 Electrical
   62.     Electrical installations and equipment
   63.     Work in proximity to exposed live equipment
   64.     Electrical installations on construction sites
   65.     Residual current devices
           Division 5 Hazardous substances
   66.     Classification of hazardous substances
   67.     Provision of information - supplier's duties
   67A.    Disclosure of ingredients of hazardous substances
   68.     Provision of information - employer's duties
   69.     Prohibition of scheduled substances for specified purposes
   69A.    Health surveillance
   69B.    Use of carcinogenic substances
   69C.    Notification of and consent to use carcinogenic substances
   69D.    Records
   69E.    Advice and reporting
           Division 6 Ventilation
   70.     Ventilation
           Division 7 Personal protective equipment
   71.     Personal protective equipment
   72.     Use, maintenance and replacement of personal protective equipment
   73.     Areas to be signposted
   74.     Duties of workers using personal protective equipment
   75.     Head protection
   76.     Eye protection
   77.     Hearing protection
   78.     Respiratory protection
   79.     Hand protection
   80.     Foot protection
   81.     Protective clothing
   82.     Safety belts and anchorages
   83.     Flotation devices
           Part 8 Plant
   84.     Design of plant
   85.     Manufacture of plant
   86.     Importation and supply of plant
   87.     Erection, installation and commissioning of plant
   87A.    Use of plant
   87B.    Inspection, maintenance and cleaning of plant
   87C.    Repair of plant
   87D.    Alteration of plant
   87E.    Dismantling, storage and disposal of plant
   87F.    Record keeping
   87G.    Provision of information
           Part 9 Designated plant
           Division 1 Design verification and registration of designated plant
   88.     Design of designated plant to be verified and registered
   89.     Verification of plant design
   90.     Registration of plant design
   91.     Cancellation &c., of registration of design
   92.     Confidentiality
           Division 2 Registration and inspection of items of designated plant
   93.     Definition
   94.     Items of designated plant to be registered
   95.     Registration
   96.     Cancellation or suspension of registration
   97.     Sale or disposal
   99.     Certificate of inspection required
   100.    Inspection of designated plant
   101.    Certificate of inspection
   102.    Cancellation of certificate of inspection
   103.    Identification marks to be maintained
   104.    Repair and maintenance of designated plant
   105.    Record to be kept
           Part 10 Specific requirements for controlling risks from plant
           Division 1 Plant under pressure
   106.    Application
   107.    Plant under pressure
           Division 2 Plant designed to lift or move
   110.    Plant designed to lift or move people, equipment or materials
   111.    Lifting gear
   115.    Repairs and maintenance
           Division 3 Lifts, escalators and moving walks
   116.    Lifts, escalators and moving walks
   117.    Maintenance of control measures
   118.    Provision of information
   119.    Use
   120.    Amusement structures
           Division 5 Powered mobile plant
   123.    Powered mobile plant
           Division 6 Plant with hot or cold parts
   124.    Plant with hot or cold parts
           Division 7 Plant with moving parts
   125.    Plant with moving parts
           Division 8 Electrical plant and plant exposed to electrical hazards
   126.    Electrical plant and plant exposed to electrical hazards
           Division 9 Industrial robots and other remotely or automatically energised equipment
   127.    Industrial robots and other remotely or automatically energised equipment
           Division 10 Compressed air nailing tools
   129.    Design and manufacture
   130.    Use
           Division 12 Lasers
   132.    Lasers
           Division 13 Scaffold
   133.    Scaffolding, access platforms and working platforms
           Part 11 Construction work
           Division 1 General
   133A.   National standard for construction work
   134.    Overloading
   136.    Crane landing platforms
   139.    Formwork
           Division 3 Excavations and earthworks
   145.    Shoring
           Division 4 Demolition work
   150.    Demolition work
   151.    Asbestos in buildings or structures
   152.    Explosive demolition
           Part 11A Mining operations
   152A.   Definitions
   152B.   Requirement for risk management plan for mining operations
   152C.   Additional contents of risk management plan for mining operations
   152D.   Fitness to work program
   152E.   Management structure
   152F.   Emergency plan
   152G.   Health surveillance
           Part 12 Specific work processes
           Division 1 Abrasive blasting
   154.    Blasting equipment
   155.    Blasting chambers and enclosures
   156.    Blasting outside blasting chamber or enclosure
   157.    Protective equipment
           Division 2 Asbestos
   158.    Prohibited processes
   159.    Control of airborne asbestos
   160.    Control of exposure to asbestos dust
   161.    Cleaning
   162.    Manufacture &c., of asbestos products
   163.    Storage and disposal of asbestos
   164.    Health surveillance
           Division 3 Spray painting
   166.    Booth required
   167.    Specifications for booths
           Division 4 Underwater work
   168.    Underwater work
           Division 5 Lead
   168A.   Biological monitoring
   168B.   Removal from work
           Part 12AA Major hazard facilities
   168BA.  National standard for control of major hazard facilities
           Part 12A Infringement notices
   168C.   Definitions
   168D.   Service of infringement notice
   168E.   Particulars to be shown on infringement notice
   168F.   Withdrawal of notice
   168G.   Penalty for offence
   168H.   Payment before expiry date of infringement notice
   168J.   General
   168K.   Workplace safety officer may require information
           Part 13 Miscellaneous
   169.    Review by Court
   170.    Reference to certain standards
   171.    Offences
   173.    Transitional
           SCHEDULE 1 Designated plant
           SCHEDULE 3 Licences
           SCHEDULE 4 Trainees performing work
           SCHEDULE 5 Type of work required to be notified
           SCHEDULE 6 Disclosure of ingredients of hazardous substance
           SCHEDULE 7 Substances prohibited for specified uses
           SCHEDULE 8 Hazardous substances for which health surveillance is required
           SCHEDULE 9 Carcinogenic substances
           SCHEDULE 10 Standards covering design and manufacture of plant0
           SCHEDULE 12 Standards applying to lifting gear
           SCHEDULE 13 Other standards
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