• Who has obligations?
• What plant needs design registration?
• Application form 14 (and directions)
• Submit an application (form 14)
• What happens after I submit an application?
• Modifications to an existing design registration
• Reciprocal design registrations with other States
• My plant design comes from overseas?
• Design verification
• Marking of design registration number
• Looking at buying plant?

• Laws and prosecutions
• Rights and obligations
• Workplace incidents and inspections
• Risk management

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Who has obligations?

An owner of plant listed in Schedule 4 of the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 as requiring plant design registration, must not use the plant, or permit the plant to be used at a workplace unless the plant design has been registered.

Owners, designers, manufacturers, suppliers and others who want to register a plant design must do so on an Application for Registration of Registrable Plant Design (form 14).

Designers, manufacturers and suppliers (including importers) who are involved with plant also have obligations under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995.

Designers of plant must ensure that the plant is:

• designed to be safe
• without risk when used properly
• accompanied by information on its safe use.

Manufacturers of plant must ensure that the plant is:

• manufactured to be safe and without risk to health when used properly
• is tested and examined for safety
• accompanied by information on how to use it safely.

Suppliers or importers of new plant, must:

• examine and test the plant to ensure it is safe and without risk to health when used properly or
• ensure the manufacturer has given an assurance that the plant has been examined and tested to ensure it is safe and without risk to health when used properly
• be accompanied by information on how to use it safely.

Suppliers or importers of used plant, must:

• take all reasonable steps to ensure that the plant is safe and without risk to health when used properly (e.g. you might test the plant yourself to establish its safety)
• ensure information accompanies the plant on how to use it safely.

If the supplier is supplying by hiring the plant, the information about the safe use of the plant is only required to have the information available at the point of hire.