Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations In this Part and in
Schedules 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, unless the contrary intention
appears —
alter , in relation to plant, means to change the
design of, add to or take away from the plant where the change may affect
safety or health, but does not include routine maintenance, repairs or
replacement;
amusement structure means equipment operated for
hire or reward which provides entertainment or amusement through movement of
the equipment, or part of the equipment, or when passengers travel on, around
or along the equipment or move the equipment through self-powered motion;
boiler means a vessel or an arrangement of vessels
and their interconnecting parts in which steam or other vapour is
generated or in which water or other liquid is heated at a pressure above that
of the atmosphere by the application of fire, the products of combustion,
electrical power or by similar high temperature means and —
(a)
includes superheaters, reheaters, economisers, boiler piping, supports,
mountings, valves, gauges, fittings, controls, the boiler setting and other
equipment directly associated with the boiler;
(b) does
not include a fully flooded or pressurised system where water or other liquid
is heated to a temperature lower than the normal atmospheric boiling
temperature of the liquid;
boom-type elevating work platform means a
telescoping device, hinged device, articulated device or any combination of
those devices used to support a platform on which personnel,
equipment and materials may be elevated;
bridge crane means a crane comprising a bridge
beam mounted at each end to an end carriage and capable of travelling along
elevated runways and having one or more hoisting mechanisms arranged to
traverse the bridge;
building maintenance equipment means a suspended
platform and associated equipment (including a building maintenance unit or a
swing stage) which incorporates permanently installed overhead supports to
provide access to the faces of a building or structure for maintenance or
cleaning, but does not include a suspended scaffold;
building maintenance unit means a power operated
suspended platform and associated equipment on a building or structure
specifically designed to provide permanent access to the faces of the building
or structure for maintenance or cleaning;
commissioning , in relation to plant, means
performing the necessary adjustments, tests and inspections before the plant
is used to ensure that the plant is in full working order in accordance with
the requirements specified in the design of the plant, and includes
recommissioning;
concrete placing unit means plant used to place
concrete by way of pumping concrete through a pipeline attached to or forming
part of a boom and capable of travelling over a supporting surface without the
need for fixed runways or railway tracks and relying on gravity for stability,
that is, with no vertical restraining connection between itself and the
supporting surface and no horizontal restraining connection (other than
frictional forces at supporting surface level) which could aid stability;
conveyor means an apparatus or equipment worked by
any power other than manual power and by which loads can be raised, lowered,
transported or continuously driven by —
(a) an
endless belt, rope or chain or other similar means;
(b)
buckets, trays or other containers or fittings moved by an endless belt, rope,
chain or other similar means;
(c) a
rotating screw;
(d) a
vibration or walking beam; or
(e) a
powered roller conveyor where the rolls are driven by an endless belt, rope or
chain,
and includes the supporting structure, auxiliary
equipment and gear used in connection with the conveyor;
crane means plant that is used for the raising or
lowering of a freely suspended load and moving a load horizontally
and —
(a)
includes the supporting structure of the crane and its foundations;
(b) does
not include any industrial lift truck, industrial robot, building maintenance
equipment, suspended scaffold or lift;
design verifier means a person competent to
undertake the tasks set out in regulation 4.3(2)(c);
earthmoving machinery means an operator controlled
item of plant used to excavate, load, transport, compact or spread earth,
overburden, rubble, spoil, aggregate or similar material;
elevating work platform means a telescoping
device, scissor device or articulating device or any combination of those
devices used to position personnel, equipment and materials to and from
workplaces located above or below the support surface;
escalator includes a moving ramp for use by
passengers but does not include a conveyor used only for moving goods;
explosive powered tool means a powder actuated
hand-held tool which can drive a fastener against, into or through a substance
by means of an explosive charge and includes every attachment and accessory
for such tool and every device to be used with such tool but does not include
a firearm, an LPG or propane gas powered tool or a side-wall coring gun used
in exploratory borehole work;
fired heater means a pressure vessel in which a
liquid is heated below its atmospheric boiling temperature or a process in
which fluid is heated in tubes above or below its atmospheric boiling
temperature by the application of fire, the products of combustion or electric
power or by similar high temperature means;
gantry crane means a crane comprising a bridge
beam supported at each end by legs mounted on end carriages which is capable
of travelling on supporting surfaces or deck levels (whether fixed or not) and
which has a crab with one or more hoisting units arranged to travel across the
bridge;
gas cylinder means a rigid pressure vessel
designed for the storage and transport of gas under pressure and to which
AS 2030 applies that does not have more than 3 000 litres water
capacity and is without openings or integral attachments on the shell other
than at the ends;
hoist means an appliance intended for raising or
lowering a load or persons and —
(a)
includes an elevating work platform, a mast-climbing work platform, a people
and materials hoist, a scaffold hoist and a serial hoist;
(b) does
not include a lift or building maintenance equipment;
industrial lift truck means powered mobile plant
designed to move goods, materials or equipment and which is equipped with an
elevating load carriage and which usually has a load-holding attachment but
does not include a mobile crane or earthmoving machinery;
industrial robot means a multi-functional
manipulator that is capable of handling materials, parts, tools or specialized
devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety
of tasks and includes its controls;
interlocked in relation to a plant’s
guarding device or machine element means the connection between the guarding
device or machine element and the plant’s control system or power system
by which connection —
(a)
access is allowed to the plant’s moving parts when those parts are not
operating; and
(b)
moving parts are prevented from starting up or operating when access is
available to those parts;
laser means any device that can produce or amplify
electromagnetic radiation in the wave length range from 100 nanometres to
one millimetre by the process of controlled stimulated emission but does not
include any electric light globe, fluorescent light tube, electric radiator
used for heating, radio or video communication equipment, domestic cooking
appliance using high powered lamps or navigation and search light;
laser product means any product or assembly of
components which constitutes, incorporates or is intended to incorporate a
laser;
lift means any permanent plant (or plant that is
intended to be permanent) which is in, or attached to, a building or structure
and by means of which persons, goods or materials may be raised or lowered
within or on a car cage or a platform and the movement of which is restricted
by a guide or guides and includes an apparatus in the nature of a chair lift,
escalator, moving walk or stairway lift and any supporting structure,
machinery, equipment, gear, lift well, enclosures and entrances;
mast climbing work platform means a hoist having a
working platform for the support or raising of personnel, equipment and
materials to the working position by means of a drive system which moves along
an extendable mast (which may be tied to a building) but does not include a
lift or building maintenance equipment;
mobile crane means a crane capable of travelling
over a supporting surface without the need for fixed runways or railway tracks
and which relies on gravity only for stability and accordingly, has neither a
vertical restraining connection between itself and the supporting surface nor
a horizontal restraining connection (other than frictional forces at the
supporting surface level) to aid stability;
nail gun means a tool which by the use of
compressed air, is capable of discharging a nail, spike or other fastener into
or through material;
operator protective devices includes roll-over
protective structures, falling object protective structures, operator
restraining devices and seat belts;
out-of-service tag means an accident prevention
tag as referred to in section 5 of AS 1319 in the form of a warning sign,
within the meaning of that Standard, bearing the words
“OUT-OF-SERVICE”;
presence sensing safeguarding system
includes —
(a) a
sensing system employing one or more forms of radiation which can be either
self-generated or generated by pressure;
(b) the
interface between the final switching devices of the sensing system and the
machine primary control elements; and
(c) the
capacity of a machine to stop when the presence of a person or part of a
person within the sensing field will cause the dangerous parts of a machine to
be brought to a safe state;
pressure equipment means a boiler, pressure vessel
and pressure piping to which AS/NZS 1200 applies and having a hazard level of
A, B, C or D according to the criteria set out in AS 4343;
pressure piping means an assembly of pipes, pipe
fittings, valves and pipe accessories subject to internal or external pressure
and used to contain or convey fluid or to transmit fluid pressure
and —
(a)
includes distribution headers, bolting, gaskets, pipe supports and pressure
retaining accessories;
(b) does
not include any boiler or pressure vessel or a pipeline to which any other
written law applies;
pressure vessel means a vessel subject to internal
or external pressure and —
(a)
includes interconnected parts and components, valves, gauges and other
fittings up to the first point of connection to connecting piping, fired
heaters and gas cylinder;
(b) does
not include any boiler or pressure piping;
regulatory authority means any Commonwealth, State
or Territory authority, other than the Commissioner, with responsibility for
plant safety;
repair , in relation to plant, means to restore
plant to an operating condition but does not include replacement, routine
maintenance or alteration;
tower crane means a boom or jib crane mounted on a
tower structure;
tractor means a motor vehicle, whether wheeled or
track mounted, designed principally to be used in agriculture, horticulture or
turf management to provide power and movement of any attached trailer, machine
or implement;
use , in relation to plant, means to work from the
plant or to operate, or maintain the plant;
vehicle hoist means a vehicle-hoisting device, the
purpose of which is to provide accessibility for convenient under-chassis
examination or service;
work box means a personnel carrying device
designed to be suspended from a crane for the purpose of providing a working
area for persons elevated by and working from the box.
[Regulation 4.1 amended in Gazette
17 Dec 1999 p. 6234; 8 Mar 2002 p. 963.]