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• 1.0 Obligations of designers
  • 1.1 Risk management
  • 1.2 Phases of plant life
  • 1.3 Standards
  • 1.4 Consultation
  • 1.5 Intended use and reasonably foreseeable misuse
  • 1.6 Physical characteristics of users
  • 1.7 Manual handling
  • 1.8 Design to facilitate safe use
  • 1.9 Minimising human error
  • 1.10 Environment conditions
  • 1.11 Erection and installation
  • 1.12 Maintenance
  • 1.13 Verifying design
  • 1.14A Plant design registration
  • 1.14B Plant Registration
  • 1.15 Information about the safe use of plant
  • 1.16 Guarding
  • 1.17 Energy source
  • 1.18 Static electricity
  • 1.19 Fire and explosion
  • 1.20 Noise
  • 1.21 Vibration
  • 1.22 Radiation exposure
  • 1.23 Hazardous substances
  • 1.24 Stability
  • 1.25 Control device
  • 1.26 Emergency
  • 1.27 Lighting
• 2.0 Obligations of manufacturers
  • 2.1 Risk management
  • 2.2 Plant construction
  • 2.3 Testing and examination
  • 2.4 Information for safe use
  • 2.5 Registration
• 3.0 Obligations of suppliers
• 4.0 Obligations of erectors and installers
• 5.0 Obligations of persons conducting a business
  • 5.1 Risk management
  • 5.2 Design and manufacture
  • 5.3 Positioning plant in the workplace
  • 5.4 Operation
  • 5.5 Damaged plant
  • 5.6 Stored plant
  • 5.7 Plant with moving parts
  • 5.8 Powered mobile plant
  • 5.9 Electrical safety
  • 5.10 Industrial robots and other remotely or automatically energised equipment
  • 5.11 Cooling water systems
  • 5.12 Auditing
  • 5.13 Inspection
  • 5.14 Maintenance, servicing and cleaning
  • 5.15 Repair
  • 5.16 Modification
  • 5.17 Disengaged plant
  • 5.18 Transporting plant
  • 5.19 Lighting
  • 5.20 Ventilation
  • 5.21 Providing information
  • 5.22 Instructing, training and supervising workers
  • 5.23 Competency
  • 5.24 Consultation
  • 5.25 Records
  • 5.26 Registration of registrable plant design
• 6.0 Obligations of persons in control of workplaces
• 7.0 Obligations of persons in control of fixtures
• 8.0 Obligations of principal contractors
• 9.0 Obligations of workers and others at a workplace
• 10.0 Obligations of owners of specified high-risk plant
• Appendix 1 – Human error
• Appendix 2 – Obligations of employers, self employed persons and persons conducting a business or undertaking
• Appendix 3 – What is a permit-to-work system
• Appendix 4 – Obligations of principal contractors
• Appendix 5 – Specified high risk plant
• Appendix 6 – Standards covering design, manufacture and use of plant
• Appendix 7 – Dictionary of defined terms

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Appendix 5 – Specified high risk plant

See Part 10

Workplace Health act 1995

Schedule 2 Specified High Risk Plant

Specified high-risk plant means:

• air-conditioning unit which provides airconditioning and that either:
  1. incorporates a cooling tower; or
  2. consists of one or more compressors and the power rating required for operation of the air-conditioning unit is 50 kW or more.
• amusement device which is:
  1. used for commercial purposes; and
  2. used or designed to be used for amusement, games, recreation, sightseeing or entertainment, and on which persons may be carried, raised, lowered or supported by any part of the device (including, for example, any car, carriage, platform, cage, boat, plank, chair, seat or thing) while the part of the device is in motion.
• cooling tower used to lower the temperature of water by evaporative cooling in which atmospheric air passes through sprayed water exchanging heat, and includes a device incorporating a refrigerant or water heat exchanger
• escalator using a power driven inclined continuous stairway to raise or lower passengers, or a moving walkway
• LP gas cylinder with a water capacity of more than 0.1 kg, that contains liquefied petroleum gas under pressure
• lift
1. having a platform or cage, the direction or movement of which is restricted by a guide or guides; and
2. used or designed for use for raising or lowering persons, goods or materials (and includes any and all machinery, supports and enclosures) and all equipment of them (whether or not detachable) used or designed for use for operating a lift.

Last updated August 23, 2006

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