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1. Introduction
2. The Electrical Safety Act 2002
3. The Electrical Safety Regulation 2002
4. Risk management
5. Operating cranes and plant near overhead electric lines
6. Work near low voltage overhead electric lines
7. Clearing vegetation near overhead electric lines
8. Agricultural work near overhead electric lines
9. Transportation of high loads near electric lines
10. Repair of electrical equipment
11. Work near electrical hazards in buildings and near underground electrical cables
Appendix A - Meaning of terms used in this code
Appendix B - Exclusion zones in millimetres

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8.2 Regulation on exclusion zones

Persons performing electrical or non-electrical work must not allow any part of their body – or anything they are holding or have attached to their body or any part of any operating plant – to encroach the exclusion zones as detailed in Appendix B.

Last updated July 16, 2009