Victorian Consolidated Regulations

8 Reg. 9.2.1: S.R. No. 127/2000 as amended by S.R. No. 96/2005. - SECT 3.5.4.

Guarding

3.5.4. Guarding



(1) If a designer of plant uses guarding as a measure to control risk, the
designer must, so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure that the guarding
designed for that purpose will prevent access to the danger point or danger
area of the plant.

Note Act compliance-section 27 (see regulation 1.1.7).

(2) If a designer of plant uses guarding as a measure to control risk, the
designer must ensure that-

   (a)  if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is not necessary
        during operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant, the guarding
        is a permanently fixed physical barrier; or





   (b)  if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is necessary
        during operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant, the guarding
        is an interlocked physical barrier that allows access to the area
        being guarded at times when that area does not present a risk and
        prevents access to that area at any other time; or

   (c)  if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in
        paragraph (a) or (b), the guarding used is a physical barrier that can
        only be altered or removed by the use of tools; or

   (d)  if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in
        paragraph (a), (b) or (c), the design includes a presence-sensing
        safeguarding system that eliminates any risk arising from the area of
        the plant requiring guarding while a person or any part of a person is
        in the area being guarded.

Note Act compliance-section 27 (see regulation 1.1.7).

(3) If a designer of plant uses guarding as a measure to control risk the
designer must ensure that the guarding is-

   (a)  designed to make by-passing or disabling of the guarding, whether
        deliberately or by accident, as difficult as is reasonably possible;
        and

   (b)  designed so as not to cause a risk in itself.

Note Act compliance-section 27 (see regulation 1.1.7).



(4) If a designer of plant-

   (a)  uses guarding as a measure to control risk; and

   (b)  the plant to be guarded contains moving parts and those parts may
        break or cause workpieces to be ejected from the plant-

the designer must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the
guarding will control any risk from those broken or ejected parts and
workpieces. Note Act compliance-section 27 (see regulation 1.1.7).

(5) Despite anything to the contrary in this regulation, any guarding a
designer of plant uses as a measure to control risk in relation to plant may
be of a kind that is able to be removed to allow convenient repair, servicing
and maintenance of plant at any time that the plant is not in normal
operation.