Victorian Consolidated Regulations

8 Reg. 9.2.1: S.R. No. 127/2000 as amended by S.R. No. 96/2005. - SECT 3.1.3.

Review of risk control measures

3.1.3. Review of risk control measures



(1) An employer must ensure that any measures implemented to control risks in
relation to musculoskeletal disorders are reviewed and, if necessary, revised-

   (a)  before any alteration is made to objects used in a workplace or to
        systems of work that include a task involving hazardous manual
        handling, including a change in the place where that task is
        undertaken; or

   (b)  before an object is used for another purpose than that for which it
        was designed if that other purpose may result in an employee carrying
        out hazardous manual handling; or

   (c)  if new or additional information about hazardous manual handling being
        associated with a task becomes available to the employer; or

   (d)  if an occurrence of a musculoskeletal disorder in a workplace is
        reported by or on behalf of an employee; or

   (e)  after any incident occurs to which Part 5 of the Act applies that
        involves hazardous manual handling; or

   (f)  if, for any other reason, the risk control measures do not adequately
        control the risks; or

   (g)  after receiving a request from a health and safety representative.

Note Act compliance-section 21 (see regulation 1.1.7).

(2) A health and safety representative may make a request under subregulation
(1)(g) if the health and safety representative believes on reasonable grounds
that-

   (a)  any of the circumstances referred to in subregulations (1)(a) to
        (1)(f) exists; or

   (b)  the employer has failed-

   (i)  to properly review the risk control measures; or



   (ii) to take account of any of the circumstances referred to in
        subregulations (1)(a) to (1)(f) in conducting a review of, or
        revising, the risk control measures. __________________