Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 - SECT 31

Duties of persons installing, erecting or commissioning plant

31. Duties of persons installing, erecting or commissioning plant



(1) A person who installs, erects or commissions plant who knows, or ought
reasonably to know, that the plant is to be used at a workplace must ensure,
so far as is reasonably practicable, that nothing about the way in which the
plant is installed, erected or commissioned makes its use unsafe or a risk to
health.

Penalty: 1800 penalty units for a natural person; 9000 penalty units for a
body corporate.

(2) An offence against subsection (1) is an indictable offence.

Note However, the offence may be heard and determined summarily (see
section 28 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009).