Victorian Consolidated Regulations

8 Reg. 9.2.1: S.R. No. 127/2000 as amended by S.R. No. 96/2005. - SECT 3.3.7.

Use of plant to control risk

3.3.7. Use of plant to control risk



(1) An employer must ensure that any plant used to control a risk of a fall
is-

   (a)  designed and constructed for the task or range of tasks to be
        undertaken; and

   (b)  designed and constructed in such a way as to enable its safe use in
        the physical surroundings in which it is to be used and the conditions
        during which it is to be used.

Examples Examples of physical surroundings are the type and condition of
supporting surface and proximity to powerlines and trees.
Examples of conditions are lighting and weather conditions. Note Act
compliance-section 21 (see regulation 1.1.7).

(2) An employer must ensure that the installation, erection or dismantling of
plant used to control the risk of a fall is carried out in such a manner as to
reduce, so far as is reasonably practicable, any risk while that installation,
erection or dismantling is being carried out.

Examples Examples of the risks to be reduced are risks of a fall, electric
shock, crushing and musculoskeletal disorder. Note Act compliance-section 21
(see regulation 1.1.7).