Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electricity Safety Act 1998 - SECT 107

Electricity safety management scheme

107. Electricity safety management scheme



(1) Energy Safe Victoria-

   (a)  may permit a person (the scheme operator) who is an employer of
        electrical workers to submit an electricity safety management scheme
        in respect of the electrical work carried out by those workers for
        that person; and

   (b)  may permit a network operator (the scheme operator) to submit an
        electricity safety management scheme in respect of the design,
        construction, operation and maintenance of the network operator's
        upstream network; and

   (c)  may permit a person (the scheme operator) to submit an electricity
        safety management scheme in respect of electrical work carried out at
        specified premises occupied by that person by electrical workers
        employed or engaged by that person.

(1A) Energy Safe Victoria may, in accordance with the regulations, permit a
person (the scheme operator) to submit a combined electricity safety
management scheme under paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (1) or any
combination of those paragraphs.

(2) A scheme submitted under this section-

   (a)  must be in writing accompanied by the relevant prescribed application
        fee; and



   (b)  in accordance with the regulations, must specify the safety management
        system being followed or to be followed in respect of the safety of
        the electrical work to which the system applies or of the upstream
        network or of the electrical work at premises to which the scheme
        applies, as the case requires.