Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Rail Safety Act 2006 - SECT 7

Rail safety work

7. Rail safety work

For the purposes of this Act, rail safety work means-

   (a)  driving, despatching, or any other activity which is capable of
        controlling or affecting the movement of rolling stock;

   (b)  signalling, and signalling operations, receiving and relaying of
        communications or any other activity which is capable of controlling
        or affecting the movement of rolling stock;

   (c)  coupling or uncoupling rolling stock;

   (ca) loading or unloading rolling stock;





   (d)  designing, constructing, repairing, modifying, maintaining,
        monitoring, inspecting or testing of-

   (i)  rolling stock, including checking that the rolling stock is working
        properly before being used or operated; or

   (ii) civil or electric traction infrastructure; or

   (iii) signalling or telecommunications equipment;

   (e)  installing components in relation to rolling stock;

   (f)  any work on or about rail infrastructure relating to the design,
        construction, repair, modification, maintenance, monitoring,
        inspecting or testing of rail infrastructure or associated works or
        equipment, including checking that the rail infrastructure is working
        properly before being used or operated;

   (g)  installing or maintaining any part of rail infrastructure or of the
        telecommunications system relating to it or used in connection with
        it, or of the means of supplying electricity directly to a railway or
        to any rolling stock using the rail infrastructure or to the
        telecommunications system;

   (h)  receiving and relaying of communications;



        (i)    any work involving certification as to the safety of rail
               infrastructure or rolling stock or any part or component of
               rail infrastructure or rolling stock;

   (j)  any work involving the decommissioning or disposal of rail
        infrastructure or rolling stock or any part or component of rail
        infrastructure or rolling stock;

   (k)  any work involving the development, management or monitoring of safe
        working systems for railways;

   (l)  any work in relation to ensuring the safety of-

   (i)  rail safety workers on a railway;

   (ii) any persons working on or near a railway, whether or not the person
        working on or near the railway track is carrying out rail safety work;

   (m)  any other work that is prescribed by the regulations as rail safety
        work-

but does not include any work referred to in paragraphs (a) to (l) that is
prescribed by the regulations not to be rail safety work.