Victorian Consolidated Regulations

8 Reg. 9.2.1: S.R. No. 127/2000 as amended by S.R. No. 96/2005. - SECT 3.1.1.

PART 3.1 MANUAL HANDLING

Hazard identification

3.1.1. Hazard identification



(1) An employer must, so far as is reasonably practicable, identify any task
undertaken, or to be undertaken, by an employee involving hazardous manual
handling.

Notes 1. Act compliance-section 21 (see regulation 1.1.7). 2. Hazardous manual
handling is defined in regulation 1.1.5).

(2) An employer may carry out a hazard identification under subregulation (1)
for a class of tasks rather than for individual tasks if-

   (a)  all the tasks in the class are similar; and

   (b)  the identification carried out for the class of tasks does not result
        in any person being subject to any greater, additional or different
        risk to health and safety than if the identification were carried out
        for each individual task.