WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS

Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations

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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
123. Powered mobile plant
124. Plant with hot or cold parts
125. Plant with moving parts
126. Electrical plant and plant exposed to electrical hazards
127. Industrial robots and other remotely or automatically energised equipment
129. Design and manufacture
130. Use
132. Lasers
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
145. Shoring
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

PART 14--TRANSITIONAL MATTERS FOR WORK HEALTH (OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY) REGULATIONS

173. Transitional

PART 15--TRANSITIONAL MATTERS FOR WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2010

174. Expiry of licence granted before 1 July 2010
175. NOHSC certificate taken to be licence
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