• 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
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Design verification

What is design verification?
Who can verify the plant design?
Locate a design verifier

What is design verification?

Design verification is a process where a person or persons conducts a review of the design documentation for a particular model of plant to determine if the design complies with the technical design standard specified for the plant. It should include a review of design calculations, detailed design drawings including materials specifications and manufacturing requirements, circuit diagrams, visual examination and testing of the plant. The person who conducts the review is known as the design verifier.

A report should be written by the design verifier which includes the following information:

• name and position of the design verifier
• professional qualifications of the design verifier
• the process used to check the design
• findings of the design review.

Design verification of some items of plant will require competent persons from different engineering disciplines to be involved in the review (e.g. a crane may require a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer and an electrical engineer to review the different aspects of the design). Where applicable, the design verifier must declare the involvement of another competent person and provide details accordingly.

Who can verify the plant design?

Workplace Health and Safety Queensland requires design verification to be carried out. Form 14 (last page of the application form) (PDF, 203 KB) (page 2 of the application form) must be completed and signed by a qualified person. The Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 defines the design verifier as follows:

A design verifier for a design of plant means a person who has acquired by qualifications or design experience the knowledge and skills to accurately state that the design or part of the design for which a design verification statement is to be made, complies with a particular technical standard or engineering principles.

The design verifier should state that:

• the plant design complies with a relevant technical standard(s) or engineering principle
• he/she was not involved in the original design.

The design verifier should have the qualification and experience in the relevant areas of the plant he/she is design verifying.

Locate a design verifier

Workplace Health and Safety does not provide names of design verifiers as part of its core business.

The following organisations will be able to assist by providing you with the details of professional engineers (design verifiers) in your area: