• 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?

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What plant needs design registration?

Schedule 4 of the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 requires the following plant design to be registered:

• boom-type elevating work platform
• bridge crane with a safe working load of more than or equal to 10 t
• gantry cranes with a safe working load of more than 5t
• all other bridge and gantry crane designed to handle molten metal or dangerous goods
• building maintenance unit
• escalator (as defined in Schedule 2 of the Act)
• gantry crane with a safe working load of more than 5 t
• LP gas cylinder (as defined in Schedule 2 of the Act)
• personnel hoist
• lift (as defined in Schedule 2 of the Act)
• mast climbing work platform
• mobile crane with a safe working load of more than 10 t
• prefabricated scaffolding
• pressure equipment with hazard level A, B, C or D, as worked out under the criteria stated in AS 4343 as in force on 1 July 2000, other than pressure piping
• refillable gas cylinder
• specified amusement device (class 2, 3, 4 or 5 under AS3533.1 -1997 excluding coin operated amusement devices and class 1 devices manufactured prior to 30 July 2004)
• tower crane
• vehicle hoist
• work box.

The items of plant listed above are defined in Schedule 18 of the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 (PDF, 1.6 MB).

The regulation states that plant listed in schedule 4 must not be installed or used unless a certificate of registration of registrable plant design (design registration certificate) is in force.