Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

Australia: Victoria

vAuthorised Version No. 017, incorporating amendments as at 29 July 2026 (last amended by the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Amusement Structure) Regulations 2026, S.R. No. 46/2026); read 30 September 2026

19 domains

442 controls

Victoria's principal occupational health and safety regulations: consultation and issue resolution, manual handling, noise, prevention of falls, confined spaces, plant, high risk work licences, hazardous substances, carcinogens, lead, asbestos, crystalline silica and engineered stone, construction (safe work method statements, construction induction, excavation), major hazard facilities, mines, licensing and registration.

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Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 is a compliance framework from Australia: Victoria with 19 domains and 442 controls. The largest domains are Part 4.4: Asbestos – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (110 controls), Part 3.5: Plant – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (45 controls), Part 5.3: Mines – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (42 controls). Every control below carries what it requires and what an assessor expects to see.

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Framework Domains (19)

Chapter 7: Administrative matters and exemptions – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Chapter 7: Administrative matters and exemptions – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 4 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r540	r 540 Consult employees and health and safety representatives before applying for an exemption	Section 35(1) of the Act applies so that an employer planning to seek an exemption under Part 7.2 must consult before ap...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r541	r 541 Make an exemption application in writing with the required particulars	A person seeking an exemption must apply in writing, with the signature of the applicant or someone on its behalf and a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r544-3	r 544(3) Comply with the terms and conditions of an exemption	A person granted an exemption must observe every term and condition attached to it. The Authority may have set condition...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r548	r 548 Mine operator must tell health and safety representatives about an exemption within 30 days	When an exemption is granted in relation to a mine, the operator of that mine must tell the mine's health and safety rep...

Part 2.1: General duties – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 2.1: General duties – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 4 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r18	r 18 Properly install, use and maintain required risk control measures	Anyone whom the Regulations require to adopt a particular risk control measure must make sure the measure is correctly i...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r19	r 19 Inform employees about, and pay for, required medical examinations and health monitoring	Where any regulation obliges an employer to have an employee medically examined or health monitored, the employer must t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r20	r 20 Keep health monitoring reports confidential and release copies only as permitted	Reports from medical examinations or health monitoring required by the Regulations, and any summaries of them, must be k...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r21	r 21 Involve the health and safety representative when consulting employees	When the Act or the Regulations require an employer to consult employees who are represented by an HSR, section 35(4) of...

Part 2.2: Issue resolution procedures – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 2.2: Issue resolution procedures – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 5 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r23	r 23 Notify who will represent the employer and the employees in issue resolution	For section 73 of the Act the employer must tell employees, any HSR and any health and safety committee, choosing suitab...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r24	r 24 Report health and safety issues to the HSR or employer	An employee who wants a health or safety issue resolved must raise it with the HSR if there is one, or otherwise with th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r25-1	r 25(1) and (2) Meet promptly to resolve the issue and weigh the listed matters	Once an issue is reported, the employer or employer representative and the HSR (or the nominated employee, or the affect...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r25-3	r 25(3) Put the resolution in writing on request	After an issue is resolved, if any party involved asks, the employer must write down the details of the issue and how it...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r25-4	r 25(4) to (6) Communicate the agreed resolution to affected employees and the committee	As soon as reasonably possible after resolution, the employer must make sure what was agreed, in writing or orally, reac...

Part 3.1: Hazardous manual handling – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 3.1: Hazardous manual handling – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 3 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r26	r 26 Identify hazardous manual handling	As far as reasonably practicable, an employer must identify every hazardous manual handling task that employees do or wi...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r27	r 27 Control the risk of musculoskeletal disorder from hazardous manual handling	The employer must eliminate the MSD risk as far as reasonably practicable. If it cannot, it must lessen the risk as far...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r28	r 28 Review manual handling risk controls	The employer must review, and revise if needed, its manual handling controls: before any change to a thing, process or w...

Part 3.2: Noise – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 3.2: Noise – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 10 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r29-31	rr 29 to 31 Designers, manufacturers and suppliers of plant: sound power level	A designer (s 27) and a manufacturer (s 29) of plant must, considering noise emission and exposure, design or make the p...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r32	r 32 Determine employee noise exposure where it is uncertain	If there are reasonable grounds for uncertainty about whether exposure is above, or could go above, the noise exposure s...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r33	r 33 Record noise determinations and make them accessible	An employer that makes a noise determination must record in writing how each regulation 32(3) matter was considered and...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r34	r 34 Keep employee noise exposure within the standard using the control hierarchy	No employee may be exposed above the noise exposure standard. To achieve this, the employer must first eliminate the noi...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r35	r 35 Mark where and when hearing protectors must be worn	If hearing protectors must be provided under regulation 34(5), the employer must use signs, plant labels or other suitab...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r36	r 36 Review noise risk controls	The employer must review, and revise if needed, its noise controls: before changing plant or a system of work in a way l...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r37	r 37 Provide audiometric testing for employees who need hearing protectors	For each employee who must be given hearing protectors under regulation 34(5), the employer must arrange audiometric tes...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r38	r 38 Arrange audiological examination after a significant hearing shift	Where an employee's regulation 37 audiometric tests (2 or more of them) taken within a period of no more than 2 years, s...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r39	r 39 Obtain the audiological examination report	The employer must get a report from the person who carried out the regulation 38 audiological examination that gives the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r40	r 40 Keep audiometric results and give HSRs de-identified aggregates	The employer must keep audiometric test results and audiological examination reports for as long as the employee remains...

Part 3.3: Prevention of falls – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 3.3: Prevention of falls – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 7 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r43	r 43 Identify tasks that involve a fall hazard	As far as reasonably practicable, the employer must identify each task that employees are required to perform at work an...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r44	r 44 Control fall risk using the prescribed order of controls	The employer must eliminate any fall risk as far as reasonably practicable, for example by having the task done at groun...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r45	r 45 Ensure ladders used as fall controls are suitable and correctly set up	Where a fixed or portable ladder is used to reduce a fall risk, the employer must ensure the ladder is fit for the purpo...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r46	r 46 Record administrative controls before a task relying only on them	If an employer depends solely on an administrative control (r 44(5)(b)) to lower a fall risk, it must, before the task s...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r47	r 47 Ensure plant used to control fall risk is suitable and safely installed	Plant used to control a fall risk must be designed and built for the task or tasks to be done, and in a way that allows...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r48	r 48 Review fall risk controls	The employer must review, and revise if necessary, its fall controls: before changing plant or systems of work in a way...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r49	r 49 Establish fall rescue and first aid emergency procedures before the task	Whenever a control under regulation 44(2) to (5) is used (anything other than elimination), the employer must set up eme...

Part 3.4: Confined spaces – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 3.4: Confined spaces – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 18 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r51-53	rr 51 to 53 Design, make and supply plant to minimise confined space entry	A designer (s 27) and a manufacturer (s 29) of plant that includes or will include a confined space must design or make...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r55	r 55 Identify confined space hazards	Employers and self-employed persons must, as far as reasonably practicable, find every hazard linked to confined space w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r56	r 56 Eliminate or reduce confined space risks considering the listed matters	Employers and self-employed persons must eliminate the risks of confined space work as far as reasonably practicable, fo...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r57	r 57 Isolate plant and services connected to a confined space	Employers and self-employed persons must eliminate, as far as reasonably practicable, risks from any substance or condit...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r58	r 58 Manage the confined space atmosphere and respiratory protection	Employers and self-employed persons must ensure contaminants are purged or ventilated from the space as far as reasonabl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r59	r 59 Keep ignition sources out of a confined space where fire or explosion is likely	If a fire or explosion could likely occur in a confined space, employers and self-employed persons must keep any ignitio...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r60	r 60 Keep flammable gas below 5% of LEL or remove employees	While confined space work is under way, employers and self-employed persons must keep flammable gas or vapour below 5% o...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r61	r 61 Erect confined space signs	While work in a confined space, or work preparing for or finishing it, is going on, employers and self-employed persons...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r62	r 62 Review confined space risk controls	Employers and self-employed persons must review, and where needed revise, their confined space controls after a Part 5 i...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r63	r 63 Issue a confined space entry permit before any employee enters	An employer must not let an employee enter a confined space unless it has issued an entry permit for that entry. Each pe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r64	r 64 Keep confined space entry permits	The employer must keep each entry permit it issues until the related work is finished, or, where a notifiable incident h...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r65	r 65 Maintain continuous communication and outside initiation of emergency procedures	While an employee works in a confined space, the employer must ensure continuous communication between the employee insi...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r66-68	rr 66 to 68 Track entry, ensure exit and record exit from the confined space	For the period a permit operates, the employer must have a procedure through which the employer, or an assigned person,...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r69	r 69 Establish and rehearse confined space emergency procedures	Employers and self-employed persons must have emergency procedures for controlling and managing an emergency in the conf...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r70	r 70 Provide and enforce PPE for confined space emergencies	An employer must give air-supplied respiratory equipment to an employee who goes into a confined space during an emergen...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r71	r 71 Provide adequate openings or alternative rescue access	Employers and self-employed persons must ensure confined space entry and exit openings are large enough to allow any per...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r72	r 72 Maintain emergency plant for confined space rescue	Employers and self-employed persons must keep any plant supplied for the confined space emergency procedures, such as re...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r73	r 73 Train relevant employees for confined space work	The employer must ensure relevant employees (entrants, those with a function in the work or emergency procedures, and th...

Part 3.5: Plant – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 3.5: Plant – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 45 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r100	r 100 Employer must guard or insulate hot and cold plant parts	A self-employed person or employer must ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that every pipe or other plant compone...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r101	r 101 Employer must ensure operator controls are suitable	A self-employed person or employer must ensure the operator controls on plant are clearly identified as to their nature...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r102	r 102 Employer must ensure emergency stop devices are suitable	Where plant has two or more emergency stops fitted and is designed for two or more people to run or attend, the self-emp...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r103	r 103 Employer must position emergency warning devices effectively	Where an emergency warning device is part of the plant, the self-employed person or employer must ensure it is positione...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r104	r 104 Employer must install, commission and decommission plant safely	A self-employed person or employer must ensure that: plant is installed or erected with enough clear working space aroun...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r105	r 105 Employer must inspect plant in use and prevent unauthorised alteration	A self-employed person or employer must inspect plant as often and as thoroughly as needed to keep the risks of its use...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r106	r 106 Employer must keep inspection and maintenance records for specified plant	For as long as it manages or controls the plant, a self-employed person or employer must keep a record of every inspecti...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r106A-2	r 106A(1) to (3) Keep a complete logbook and the manuals with the amusement structure	For amusement structures covered by AS 3533.1, other than those that standard classes as class 1, the person managing or...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r106A-4-5	r 106A(4) to (7) Give access to the amusement structure logbook and manuals and hand them over	The self-employed person or employer managing or controlling an amusement structure to which r 106A applies must give th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r107	r 107 Employer must leave idle plant in a safe state	A self-employed person or employer must ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that plant not being used is left in a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r109	r 109 Powered mobile plant: overturning, falling objects, ejection, collisions and riders	A self-employed person or employer must, as far as reasonably practicable, eliminate or, if that is not reasonably pract...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r110	r 110 Warning devices on powered mobile plant	Where powered mobile plant is likely to collide with other powered mobile plant or with pedestrians, the self-employed p...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r111	r 111 Tractors must have roll-over protection	A self-employed person or employer must not let a wheeled tractor be used at its workplace unless roll-over protection i...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r112-113	rr 112 and 113 Industrial lift trucks: attachments, operating conditions, passengers and warnings	A self-employed person or employer must ensure an industrial lift truck carries lifting attachments suited to the load b...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r114	r 114 Electrical plant and plant exposed to electrical hazards	For electrical plant, and for any plant exposed to an electrical hazard, a self-employed person or employer must ensure...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r115	r 115 Plant used to lift or suspend loads	A self-employed person or employer must ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that plant lifting or suspending peopl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r116	r 116 Lifts: lift well falls, falling objects and car movement	For a lift it manages or controls, including one whose maintenance it manages or controls, a self-employed person or emp...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r117	r 117 Display rated capacity notice in lifts	A self-employed person or employer must ensure that every lift at its workplace has a legible notice fixed in a conspicu...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r118	r 118 Scaffolds: completion, security, repairs and unauthorised access	A self-employed person or employer must ensure that no work, other than erecting or dismantling the scaffold, is done fr...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r119	r 119 Tower cranes: foundations and tie placement designed by an engineer	A self-employed person or employer must ensure every tower crane stands on a foundation or supporting structure whose de...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r120	r 120 Keep tower crane foundation and tie design information available	While a tower crane remains erected on a particular supporting structure or foundation, the self-employed person or empl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r121	r 121 Review and revise plant risk control measures	A self-employed person or employer must review, and revise where needed, the measures controlling risks from plant and i...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r122	r 122 Information, instruction and training for plant hazards	Where a plant hazard or a hazard in its systems of work has been identified under r 97, the employer must ensure that an...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r123	r 123 Information for persons involved in a plant activity	Where a hazard associated with plant or its systems of work has been identified under r 97, the employer must give any p...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r124	r 124 Notify the Authority of incidents involving prescribed plant	Regulation 124 prescribes plant for the purposes of Act s 37(2)(e)(i). The prescribed plant is every type in r 74(1) exc...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r125	r 125 Design of Schedule 2 plant must be registered	Every Schedule 2 plant design needs registration under Part 6.2, and under section 40(2) of the Act no person may use su...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r126	r 126 Altered designs of Schedule 2 plant must be registered	When a registered Schedule 2 plant design is altered so much that the plant needs new risk control measures, the altered...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r127C	r 127C Items of Schedule 2 amusement structures must be registered	Each individual Schedule 2 amusement structure needs registration as an item of plant under Part 6.2 Division 2A, in add...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r76	r 76 Designer must identify hazards of plant during design	While designing plant, the designer must identify, as far as reasonably practicable, every hazard connected with the use...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r77	r 77 Designer's requirements for guarding	Where a designer relies on guarding to control plant risk, the design must, as far as reasonably practicable, stop peopl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r78	r 78 Designer must provide suitable operator controls	A designer must ensure the design provides operator controls that are clearly identified on the plant as to their nature...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r79	r 79 Designer requirements for emergency stop devices	Where plant has two or more emergency stops and is designed for two or more people to run or attend, the design must ens...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r80	r 80 Designer must position warning devices and fit collision warnings on mobile plant	A designer who includes an emergency warning device on plant must ensure the design locates it where it will work to bes...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r81-82	rr 81 and 82 Designer must give information to the manufacturer and revise it when a hazard is found	When making a plant design available to the manufacturer, the designer must supply enough information for the plant to b...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r83-84	rr 83 and 84 Designer records of risk control method and technical standards	Where Part 6.2 requires registration of a plant design, the designer must record the method used to settle on the risk c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r85	r 85 Manufacturer must control plant risk and deal with design hazards	A manufacturer must build and inspect plant having regard to the designer's information under Division 2 and s 27(1)(c)...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r86-87	rr 86 and 87 Manufacturer must pass on design information and keep records	When supplying plant, a manufacturer must give the recipient the information the designer provided under r 81 and Act s...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r89	r 89 Supplier of new plant must give safety information	When supplying new plant, the supplier must hand the recipient the information the supplier received under r 86 and Act...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r90-91	rr 90 and 91 Supplier of used plant and scrap must give information or written notice	At the time of supply, a supplier of used plant must give the recipient any information it holds that was required to be...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r92	r 92 Supplier must not supply a tractor without roll-over protection	A supplier must not supply a wheeled tractor unless it has roll-over protection fitted, where the tractor was built in V...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r93-94	rr 93 and 94 Hire or lease supplier must inspect and maintain plant between hires and keep records	A supplier who hires out or leases plant must have it inspected and maintained between each hire or lease so that risks...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r95	r 95 Agent selling plant must obtain and pass on supplier information	A person selling plant as the agent of a supplier must, before the sale takes place, obtain from the supplier the inform...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r97	r 97 Employer must identify plant hazards	A self-employed person or employer must identify, as far as reasonably practicable, every hazard connected with installi...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r98	r 98 Employer must control plant risk using the hierarchy of control	A self-employed person or employer must eliminate plant risks as far as reasonably practicable. Where elimination is not...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r99	r 99 Employer requirements for plant guarding	Where a self-employed person or employer relies on guarding, it must, as far as reasonably practicable, prevent access t...

Part 3.6: High risk work – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 3.6: High risk work – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 7 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r128	r 128 Do not perform high risk work without an appropriate licence	High risk work, meaning work inside a Schedule 3 licence class, may only be performed by someone who has a licence of th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r129	r 129 Employer must not allow an unlicensed employee to perform high risk work	An employer must not permit any employee to carry out high risk work without a licence of the appropriate class for that...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r132	r 132 Employer must directly supervise high risk work trainees	An employer whose employee is training toward a high risk work licence and is doing high risk work at the workplace is r...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r133	r 133 Training provider must supervise participants doing high risk work	A person who runs a training course or program in which participants carry out high risk work as part of the course must...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r134	r 134 Authorised assessor must issue a notice of assessment with reasons	A person may ask an authorised assessor to assess the person's competency to safely carry out particular high risk work...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r135	r 135 Assessor must follow the Authority's assessment instruments and procedures	An authorised assessor must carry out every competency assessment for r 134 using whatever assessment instruments and pr...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r138	r 138 Conditions for working while a licence or renewal application is processed	A person holding a notice of assessment (satisfactory) may do the work the notice covers for 60 days from the date the n...

Part 4.1: Hazardous substances – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

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Controls in the Part 4.1: Hazardous substances – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 27 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r143	r 143 Determine whether a substance is hazardous before first supply	Before the first occasion on which a substance goes to any workplace, its manufacturer or importing supplier has to deci...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r144	r 144 Prepare a safety data sheet before first supply	Each manufacturer or importing supplier of hazardous substances has to have a safety data sheet (SDS) ready, complying w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r145	r 145 Include the required content in a safety data sheet	Every SDS for a hazardous substance must, in English and legibly, set out: the product identifier and chemical identity;...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r146	r 146 Review and revise the safety data sheet at least every 5 years	The manufacturer or importing supplier must look again at each SDS, and update it where needed, as often as it takes to...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r147-148	rr 147 and 148 Provide the current and any revised safety data sheet to recipients	A manufacturer or supplier (including an importing supplier) must see that a copy of the current SDS goes to every perso...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r149	r 149 Manufacturers and importing suppliers must label containers	Before any workplace receives a hazardous substance, the substance's manufacturer or importing supplier has to label eve...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r150	r 150 Use a recognised alternative labelling system correctly	Labelling under another recognised system may replace r 149 for a manufacturer or importing supplier, but only on its co...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r151	r 151 Supplier must ensure container carries the manufacturer's or importer's label	A supplier that is not the importing supplier has to make sure every container of a hazardous substance it supplies to a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r152	r 152 Disclose an ingredient's chemical identity to a treating doctor	Where neither the SDS nor the container label reveals the chemical identity of an ingredient, and a registered medical p...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r153	r 153 Do not use prohibited hazardous substances	Every employer and self-employed person must make sure a hazardous substance listed in Schedule 6 is not used at their w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r155	r 155 Obtain a current safety data sheet	An employer has to have the current SDS for a hazardous substance in hand no later than the first time that substance is...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r156	r 156 Keep the safety data sheet readily accessible to exposed employees	The employer must make sure every employee who could be exposed to a hazardous substance can readily get to its current...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r157	r 157 Do not alter the information in a safety data sheet	The employer has to make sure nobody changes the information in a current SDS it obtained under r 155. Summaries, workpl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r158	r 158 Keep containers labelled, including decanted containers	An employer must make sure any container in which a hazardous substance arrives at its workplace carries the manufacture...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r159	r 159 Keep containers labelled until cleaned or neutralised	A container that r 158 requires to be labelled must stay labelled until it has been cleaned so it no longer presents a r...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r160	r 160 Identify hazardous substances in pipes, vessels and process plant	An employer must make sure employees who could be exposed are made aware of the hazardous substance held in pipes, pipin...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r161	r 161 Identify containers of hazardous substance waste	The employer must make sure that containers holding waste which a hazardous substance gives rise to at the workplace are...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r162	r 162 Prepare and maintain a register of hazardous substances	An employer must see that a register covering every hazardous substance supplied to its workplace exists and is kept cur...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r163	r 163 Control risks from hazardous substances using the hierarchy	The employer's first obligation is to eliminate risks from hazardous substances at the workplace, as far as reasonably p...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r164	r 164 Review hazardous substance risk controls on the listed triggers	The employer must review, and revise where needed, its hazardous substance risk controls: before any change to systems o...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r165	r 165 Keep exposure below the exposure standard	The employer must make sure no employee breathes an airborne concentration of any hazardous substance (supplied to the w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r166	r 166 Carry out atmospheric monitoring where required	Where an exposure standard exists for a hazardous substance, or any ingredient of it, that is supplied to the workplace...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r167	r 167 Give atmospheric monitoring results to exposed employees	Whenever atmospheric monitoring is done at the workplace, its results must be given by the employer, as soon as reasonab...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r168	r 168 Keep atmospheric monitoring records for 30 years	The employer must keep the results of atmospheric monitoring for the period the Authority determines (which can be no mo...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r169	r 169 Provide health monitoring for Schedule 9 substances	The employer must make sure health monitoring is done for an employee exposed to a substance in column 2 of Schedule 9 T...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r170	r 170 Send the health monitoring report to the Authority where removal is recommended	If a health monitoring report under r 169(2)(c)(ii) recommends that the employer act to keep an employee away from the s...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r171	r 171 Keep health monitoring reports for 30 years	Each r 169(2) health monitoring report the employer receives must be kept for the period the Authority determines (up to...

Part 4.2: Scheduled carcinogenic substances – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

4 controls

Controls in the Part 4.2: Scheduled carcinogenic substances – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 4 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r173	r 173 Supply scheduled carcinogens only to licence holders and keep supply records	Scheduled carcinogenic substances may be supplied only to a person holding a carcinogens licence that covers the particu...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r174	r 174 Hold a carcinogens licence before working with a scheduled carcinogen	Work or any activity with a Schedule 10 (prohibited) carcinogen is allowed only in a laboratory, and only by a person wh...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r175	r 175 Record each person who works with a scheduled carcinogen and keep for 30 years	The employer must make a record for each person working with a scheduled carcinogenic substance at its workplace. The re...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r176	r 176 Give a written statement to a person who stops working with a scheduled carcinogen	When a person leaves a workplace where they have worked with a scheduled carcinogenic substance, the employer must give...

Part 4.3: Lead – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

24 controls

Controls in the Part 4.3: Lead – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 24 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r182	r 182 Inform job applicants about lead health risks and monitoring	When a person applies to work for the employer in a lead process, the employer must see that the applicant is told how l...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r183	r 183 Inform employees about medical examinations and biological monitoring before starting	Before an employee starts work for the first time in a lead process the employer controls, the employer must make sure t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r184	r 184 Control lead exposure risks using the hierarchy	The employer must first eliminate any risk from lead exposure as far as reasonably practicable. If that cannot be done,...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r185	r 185 Review lead risk controls on the listed triggers	The employer must review, and revise if needed, its lead risk controls: before any significant change to the lead proces...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r186-1A	r 186(1) and (1A) Keep airborne lead below the lead exposure standard	The employer must make sure no employee is exposed in their breathing zone to airborne lead dust, mist or fumes above 0....
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r186-2	r 186(2) Monitor airborne lead where required	The employer must monitor airborne lead dust, mist or fume concentrations at its workplace if there are reasonable groun...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r187	r 187 Give airborne lead monitoring results to exposed employees	Each employee who has been or could be exposed must receive, as soon as reasonably possible, the results of any airborne...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r188	r 188 Confine lead contamination to the lead process area	The employer must make sure, as far as reasonably practicable, that lead contamination does not spread beyond the area w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r189	r 189 Keep lead areas clean using safe cleaning methods	The employer must make sure, as far as reasonably practicable, that each area where a lead process is done is kept clean...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r190	r 190 Stop eating, drinking and smoking in lead areas and provide a clean eating area	Wherever a lead process is carried on, the employer must make sure nobody eats, drinks, chews gum or smokes, and nobody...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r191	r 191 Provide and maintain changing and washing facilities	The employer must, as far as reasonably practicable, provide employees with changing and washing facilities, kept in goo...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r192	r 192 Launder, dispose of and control removal of lead-contaminated clothing	Where protective or work clothing is reasonably likely to be contaminated with lead dust, the employer must arrange for...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r194	r 194 Identify whether a lead process is lead-risk work	The employer must classify each lead process as either reasonably likely or not reasonably likely to cause employees' bl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r195	r 195 Notify the Authority of lead-risk work within 7 days and keep the notice	An employer that identifies a lead process as reasonably likely to exceed the r 193 blood lead thresholds must tell the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r196	r 196 Arrange health monitoring before and soon after starting lead-risk work	Before an employee first starts lead-risk work, the employer must arrange both a medical examination and biological moni...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r197	r 197 Arrange health monitoring when work is later identified as lead-risk work	Where work was not classed as lead-risk work when an employee started it, is later identified as lead-risk work, and the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r198	r 198 Conduct biological monitoring at the required intervals	For every employee in lead-risk work the employer must arrange biological monitoring at set intervals from the last test...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r199	r 199 Remove employees from lead-risk work at the removal levels	The employer must take an employee off lead-risk work immediately if biological monitoring shows a blood lead level at o...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r200	r 200 Arrange a medical examination within 7 days of removal	Where an employee's removal from lead-risk work was triggered by a blood lead result or a control failure indication (pa...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r201	r 201 Manage return to lead-risk work after medical removal	Where the employer expects an employee removed under paragraph (a) or (b) of r 199(1A) (or of the earlier r 199(1)) to c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r202	r 202 Brief the examining doctor and obtain the required reports	For every medical examination required by Part 4.3, the employer must give the registered medical practitioner its own n...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r203	r 203 Send biological monitoring and medical reports to the Authority after removal	Once r 199 has led the employer to take a person off lead-risk work, the employer must send the Authority a copy of the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r204	r 204 Keep lead medical and biological monitoring records for 30 years	The employer must keep every medical examination report a registered medical practitioner gives it under Part 4.3, and e...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r205	r 205 Employee duties in lead process areas	Employees must not eat, drink, smoke or chew gum anywhere a lead process is carried on, and must not take food, drink, g...

Part 4.4: Asbestos – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

110 controls

Controls in the Part 4.4: Asbestos – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 110 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r208	r 208 Treat uncertain dust as asbestos-contaminated or have it analysed	Where there are reasonable grounds for doubt about whether dust contains asbestos, the person dealing with it under Part...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r209	r 209 Workplace controller must eliminate or minimise airborne asbestos exposure	Whoever manages or controls a workplace must remove the exposure of people there to airborne asbestos fibres as far as r...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r210	r 210 Employer or self-employed individual must keep asbestos exposure below the standard	An employer or self-employed individual must make sure that nobody is exposed, because of how the business is conducted,...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r211	r 211 Employer must determine employee asbestos exposure when in doubt	Where an employer has reasonable grounds to be unsure whether exposure has gone above the asbestos exposure standard, th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r212	r 212 Employer must make asbestos air monitoring results accessible to HSRs and employees	An employer must keep the results of any atmospheric monitoring for airborne asbestos at the workplace readily available...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r213	r 213 Use an approved asbestos laboratory for required analysis	Any analysis of a sample that Part 4.4 requires (for example under rr 208, 226, 233, 245 or 304) must be carried out by...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r214	r 214 Do not perform or arrange asbestos removal except under Division 7	No employer, self-employed individual or workplace manager or controller may do, or arrange for another person to do, as...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r215	r 215 Contaminated protective clothing may leave a workplace only for disposal or approved laundering	An employer or self-employed individual must not take asbestos-contaminated protective clothing away from a workplace un...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r216a	r 216(1) to (4) Brooms, brushes, water jets and power tools on asbestos only under control	An employer or self-employed individual must not use, or cause the use of, a broom, a brush (other than one used for sea...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r216b	r 216(5) and (6) Restrict compressed air and gases near asbestos	An employer or self-employed individual must not use, or cause the use of, compressed air or other compressed gas on asb...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r218	r 218 Do not manufacture asbestos-containing material	No person may manufacture asbestos-containing material. This is a Dangerous Goods Act 1985 prohibition in Division 4, an...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r219	r 219 Do not supply asbestos	Supplying asbestos to anyone is prohibited. The ban does not reach asbestos that was already fixed or installed on 31 De...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r220	r 220 Do not store asbestos except waste or clothing held for disposal or laundering	Storing asbestos is banned, with two exceptions. First, asbestos waste, or non-disposable protective clothing likely to...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r221	r 221 Do not transport asbestos except for disposal or laundering	A person must not transport asbestos. The ban does not cover moving asbestos or asbestos waste to be disposed of, moving...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r222	r 222 Do not sell asbestos	Selling asbestos is prohibited. The only carve-out is asbestos that was already fixed or installed on 31 December 2003 i...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r223	r 223 Do not use asbestos	No person may use asbestos, except asbestos that was fixed or installed on 31 December 2003 in a vehicle, aircraft, ship...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r224	r 224 Do not install, re-use or replace with asbestos-containing material	Nobody may attach asbestos-containing material to, or install it in, a vehicle, aircraft, ship, plant, building or struc...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r226	r 226 Workplace controller must identify asbestos, record its features and label it	Whoever manages or controls a workplace must, as far as reasonably practicable, find all asbestos under its control. Whe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r227	r 227 Workplace controller must keep an asbestos register	Whoever manages or controls a workplace must enter the results of its r 226 identification in an asbestos register. The...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r228	r 228 Keep the asbestos register current and review it at least every 5 years	Whoever manages or controls a workplace must update the asbestos register so it stays current, recording any change in c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r229	r 229 Workplace controller must give copies of, and access to, the asbestos register	Whoever manages or controls a workplace must supply the asbestos register, in copy, to: each employer or self-employed i...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r230	r 230 Hand over the asbestos register when relinquishing management or control	Anyone who manages or controls a workplace and plans to give up that role must pass the asbestos register, in copy, to w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r231	r 231 Workplace controller must remove asbestos, or else enclose, or else seal it	Whoever manages or controls a workplace must deal with risks from asbestos under its control in a set order: first elimi...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r232	r 232 Workplace controller must review asbestos risk controls on set triggers	Whoever manages or controls a workplace has to review its asbestos risk control measures, revising them where needed: be...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r233	r 233 Employer must obtain the site register and identify asbestos under its own control	At a workplace covered by Division 5, an employer must get a copy of the asbestos register from any other person holding...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r234	r 234 Employer must tell the workplace controller about asbestos risks it identifies	An employer must inform the person managing or controlling the workplace of any risks the employer identifies that are c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r235	r 235 Employer must keep an employer's asbestos register	An employer must record the results of its r 233 identification in an employer's asbestos register. The register must in...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r236	r 236 Keep the employer's asbestos register current, review on HSR request and every 5 years	An employer must keep its asbestos register up to date, recording any change in asbestos condition and any removal, encl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r237	r 237 Employer must give access to and copies of its asbestos register	An employer must: keep a copy of its asbestos register readily available to its employees; give a copy to the health and...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r238	r 238 Employer must remove asbestos, or else enclose, or else seal it	For asbestos under its management or control, an employer must, as far as reasonably practicable, eliminate the associat...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r239	r 239 Employer must review asbestos risk controls on triggers and on HSR request	An employer must review, and revise if necessary, its asbestos risk control measures: before changes to the workplace, t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r241	r 241 Review the asbestos register before demolition or refurbishment and give it to the contractor	Before any demolition or refurbishment work starts at a workplace, the person managing or controlling it must review the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r242	r 242 Employer controlling asbestos must review its register before demolition or refurbishment	Before demolition or refurbishment work starts, an employer that manages or controls asbestos, including asbestos-contai...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r243	r 243 Demolition or refurbishment contractor must obtain the asbestos registers	An employer or self-employed individual demolishing or refurbishing a ship, plant, building or structure at a workplace...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r244a	r 244(1) Workplace controller must identify and remove asbestos before refurbishment or demolition	Whoever has management or control of a workplace (or of plant within a workplace) must identify the asbestos under its c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r244b	r 244(2) Employer must identify and remove its asbestos before refurbishment or demolition	An employer at a workplace must find the asbestos it manages or controls (asbestos-containing material fixed or installe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r244c	r 244(5) and (6) Contractor on domestic premises must identify and remove asbestos before the work	On domestic premises, the employer or self-employed individual doing demolition or refurbishment must itself identify th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r245	r 245 Contractor must determine whether asbestos is present where there is no register	Where neither a site asbestos register nor an employer's asbestos register exists for the workplace or plant, the employ...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r246	r 246 Asbestos required to be removed under r 244 must go to a licensed or permitted remover	Anyone who must ensure asbestos is removed under r 244 must make sure the removal is done by an asbestos removal licence...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r247a	r 247(1) Workplace controller must document an emergency demolition procedure	When an emergency (r 240(3)) arises at a workplace where a building, structure, ship or plant contained asbestos just be...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r247b	r 247(3) Person engaged for emergency asbestos removal must follow Division 7	Anyone engaged to remove asbestos during an emergency must comply with Division 7 as far as reasonably practicable. The...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r247c	r 247(4) Demolition contractor must document an emergency procedure on domestic premises	When an emergency arises at domestic premises where a building, structure, ship or plant contained asbestos immediately...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r248a	r 248(1) Workplace controller must notify WorkSafe of an emergency before demolition	Whoever manages or controls a workplace covered by r 247(1) must give the Authority written notice of its contact detail...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r248b	r 248(2) Domestic premises demolition contractor must notify WorkSafe of an emergency	An employer or self-employed individual performing demolition work on domestic premises in an emergency must give the Au...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r251	r 251 Employer doing limited removal must record training and keep it on site	An employer doing limited asbestos removal work must record what training each worker in that work has completed, and ke...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r252	r 252 Self-employed person must be trained before limited removal and keep the record	A self-employed individual must not do limited asbestos removal work unless they have been informed, instructed and trai...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r253	r 253 Obtain the relevant asbestos register before limited removal work	Before beginning limited asbestos removal work, the employer or self-employed individual must get a copy of any relevant...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r254	r 254 Employer must supply and fit suitable PPE and RPE for limited removal	An employer must provide the people doing limited asbestos removal work with suitable personal protective clothing and s...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r255	r 255 Signs and barricades around limited removal work	The employer or self-employed individual doing limited asbestos removal work must use signs and barricades, placed appro...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r256	r 256 Decontamination facilities and PPE removal controls for limited removal	The employer or self-employed individual doing limited asbestos removal work must, throughout the work, provide decontam...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r257	r 257 Decontaminate or seal equipment before it leaves a limited removal area	The employer or self-employed individual doing limited asbestos removal work must make sure that equipment used for the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r258	r 258 Carry out limited removal so fibres are not released and adjacent areas stay clean	The employer or self-employed individual doing limited asbestos removal work must, as far as reasonably practicable, car...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r259	r 259 Contain and label limited removal waste	The employer or self-employed individual doing limited asbestos removal work must ensure asbestos waste is contained so...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r260	r 260 Dispose of limited removal waste promptly at an EPA-authorised site	The employer or self-employed individual doing limited asbestos removal work must ensure asbestos waste goes for disposa...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r261	r 261 Launder contaminated clothing only at an asbestos-equipped laundry, contained and labelled	Where protective clothing from limited removal work is probably contaminated and is not being contained and disposed of...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r262	r 262 Health monitoring for employees in ongoing limited removal work	An employer doing limited asbestos removal work must arrange appropriate medical examinations by a registered medical pr...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r263	r 263 Obtain and keep medical examination summaries for limited removal workers	For each r 262 medical examination the employer must get a results summary, showing whether an asbestos-related disease...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r264	r 264 Only Class A licence holders, their employees or supervised excavator contractors may do Class A work	Class A asbestos removal work may be done only by a person who: hold a Class A asbestos removal licence; are employed by...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r265	r 265 Only Class A or Class B licence holders or their employees may do Class B work	Class B asbestos removal work may only be performed by someone holding a Class B or a Class A licence, or by someone emp...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r266	r 266 Appoint only Authority-accepted nominees as asbestos removal supervisors	A licence holder must appoint as its asbestos removal supervisor a person it nominated as a supervisor under r 462(1)(b)...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r267	r 267 Keep the Class B supervisor readily accessible	A licence holder must make sure the supervisor appointed for Class B work can be readily reached by the workers carrying...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r268	r 268 Give job applicants and contractors information on asbestos health risks and medicals	An asbestos removal licence holder must give every applicant for employment, and every independent contractor seeking en...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r269	r 269 Licence holder must train all persons before they do asbestos removal	A licence holder may not let anyone do removal work for it until that person has been informed, instructed and trained t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r270	r 270 Licence holder must record training and keep it on site	A licence holder doing removal work must record the training each removal worker has completed, keep that record the who...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r271	r 271 Licence holder must obtain the asbestos register from the commissioning person	A licence holder must get, from whoever commissioned the removal, a copy of any relevant site or employer's asbestos reg...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r272	r 272 Prepare an asbestos control plan before removal work	Before any removal work starts, the licence holder has to prepare an asbestos control plan. The plan must take account o...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r273	r 273 Give the control plan to the client and keep it accessible on site	A licence holder must supply the r 272 asbestos control plan, in copy, to the person who commissioned the removal work....
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r274	r 274 Licence holder must carry out removal so fibres are not released and nearby areas stay clean	An asbestos removal licence holder must, as far as reasonably practicable, conduct removal work so that airborne asbesto...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r275	r 275 Act on control level (0.01 f/ml) and stop work at 0.05 f/ml	Where a licence holder is doing removal work and asbestos paraoccupational air monitoring checks for fibre escape from t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r276	r 276 Licence holder must provide and fit suitable PPE and RPE	A licence holder must supply employees doing removal work with protective clothing and respiratory protective equipment...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r277	r 277 Signs, barricades and restricted access for licensed removal	An asbestos removal licence holder doing removal work must use appropriately placed signs and barricades to show the rem...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r278	r 278 Decontamination facilities, PPE exit controls and equipment decontamination for licensed removal	An asbestos removal licence holder doing removal work must: provide suitable facilities to decontaminate people, the wor...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r279	r 279 Contain and label licensed removal waste	An asbestos removal licence holder doing removal work must ensure asbestos waste is contained so no fibres escape, and t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r280	r 280 Dispose of licensed removal waste promptly at an EPA-authorised site	A licence holder must make sure asbestos waste from removal work goes for disposal as soon as reasonably possible, in a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r281	r 281 Launder licensed removal clothing only at an asbestos-equipped laundry, contained and labelled	Where probably contaminated protective clothing is not being contained and disposed of under rr 279 and 280, the licence...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r282	r 282 Health monitoring for all persons doing licensed asbestos removal	A licence holder must have every person engaged in its asbestos removal work examined by a registered medical practition...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r283	r 283 Obtain and keep medical summaries for licensed removal workers	For each r 282 medical examination the licence holder must get a summary showing whether the person has an asbestos-rela...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r285	r 285 Asbestos removal supervisor on site for all Class A work	Subdivision 4 (rr 284 to 290) adds duties for Class A asbestos removal work. The licence holder must make sure the super...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r286	r 286 Enclose, smoke test and use wet methods for Class A work	As far as reasonably practicable, a Class A licence holder must: enclose the area where Class A work is done to stop air...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r287	r 287 Do not start or restart Class A work until required air monitoring is running and results are in	Where r 292 requires asbestos paraoccupational air monitoring, the Class A licence holder must not begin removal until t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r288	r 288 Make Class A air monitoring results readily accessible to employees	The Class A licence holder must make sure the paraoccupational air monitoring results can be readily accessed by employe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r289	r 289 Dismantle and dispose of glove bags properly	Where glove bags are used for removal work, the enclosure smoke test (r 286(2)), the monitoring hold point (r 287) and t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r290	r 290 Keep the Class A enclosure until clearance air results are at or below 0.01 f/ml, then dismantle safely	The Class A licence holder must not dismantle any enclosure structure until the paraoccupational air monitoring results...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r292	r 292 Commissioning person must arrange air monitoring for Class A work	Whoever commissions Class A removal work must have asbestos paraoccupational air monitoring done before the work starts...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r293	r 293 Commissioning person must pass on Class A monitoring results	The person commissioning Class A work must pass each paraoccupational air monitoring result to the licence holder as soo...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r294	r 294 Commissioning person must arrange an independent visual clearance inspection and Class A clearance air monitoring	When Class A or Class B removal work finishes, the commissioning person must arrange for an independent person to visual...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r295	r 295 Commissioning person must give inspection and monitoring results to the licence holder	The person who commissioned Class A or Class B removal work must ensure the results of the r 294 visual inspection and a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r296	r 296 Commissioning person must ensure the independent person is competent	The person who commissioned Class A or Class B removal work must make sure the independent person carrying out the r 294...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r297	r 297 Commissioning person must obtain a clearance certificate before re-occupation	After Class A or Class B removal work is completed, and before the removal area is re-occupied, the commissioning person...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r298	r 298 Licence holder must notify WorkSafe before asbestos removal work	An asbestos removal licence holder must give the Authority written notice, containing the Schedule 13 information, befor...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r299	r 299 Notify WorkSafe within 24 hours of removal in an unexpected situation	An unexpected situation is either a sudden, unexpected event (including work needed because of non-routine equipment fai...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r300	r 300 Employer must tell employees in immediate and adjacent areas before removal starts	Before asbestos removal work begins at a workplace, an employer there must inform its employees working in the immediate...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r301	r 301 Notification chain before asbestos removal: contractor, commissioning person, neighbouring occupiers	An employer or self-employed individual commissioned to do work who intends to do limited asbestos removal work must tel...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r303	r 303 Employer must identify whether asbestos-related activities occur at its workplace	An employer must work out whether any asbestos-related activity listed in r 302 is being carried out at its workplace. T...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r304	r 304 Assume asbestos or sample where an activity's status is uncertain	If there are reasonable grounds for doubt about whether an activity counts as an asbestos-related activity, the employer...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r305	r 305 Employer must obtain registers for specified asbestos-related activities	Where specified asbestos-related activities occur at its workplace, an employer must obtain a copy of the asbestos regis...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r306	r 306 Carry out asbestos-related activities so no airborne fibres are released	When an asbestos-related activity is carried out, the employer must ensure the activity is done in a way that stops the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r307	r 307 Apply the hierarchy of control and provide suitable fitted PPE for asbestos-related activities	An employer must eliminate risks from an asbestos-related activity as far as reasonably practicable. Where that is not r...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r308	r 308 Review asbestos-related activity controls on triggers and HSR request	An employer must review, and revise where needed, the controls for an asbestos-related activity: before changes to the r...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r309	r 309 Keep the asbestos-related activity work area separate and signed	An employer must ensure the asbestos-related activity work area is kept apart from any other work area and, as far as re...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r310	r 310 Keep the work area clean using methods that do not spread fibres	An employer must ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that the asbestos-related activity work area is kept clean, a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r311	r 311 Health monitoring and supporting air monitoring for asbestos-related activities	An employer must have every employee doing ongoing asbestos-related activities examined by a registered medical practiti...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r312	r 312 Make atmospheric monitoring results accessible for asbestos-related activities	An employer must keep the Part 4.4 atmospheric monitoring results, in copy form, readily available to affected employees...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r313	r 313 Obtain and keep medical summaries for asbestos-related activity workers for 30 years	For each r 311 medical examination the employer must get a summary showing whether the person has an asbestos-related di...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r314	r 314 Decontaminate or contain PPE and equipment leaving the activity work area	An employer conducting an asbestos-related activity must ensure nobody takes personal protective equipment (including pr...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r315	r 315 Contain and label asbestos no longer needed for the activity	An employer conducting an asbestos-related activity must ensure any asbestos derived from or linked to the activity that...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r316	r 316 Dispose of activity asbestos waste promptly at an EPA-authorised site	An employer conducting an asbestos-related activity must ensure asbestos waste goes for disposal as soon as reasonably p...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r317	r 317 Launder activity clothing only at an asbestos-equipped laundry, contained and labelled	Where protective clothing used for an asbestos-related activity and likely to be contaminated is not contained and dispo...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r318	r 318 Tell job applicants about asbestos hazards and risks	Every applicant for a job doing an asbestos-related activity must be given, by the employer, information on what the haz...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319	r 319 Record asbestos-related activity training and keep it while applicable	An employer must make a record of any training it provides on carrying out asbestos-related activities and keep that rec...

Part 4.5: Crystalline silica – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

24 controls

Controls in the Part 4.5: Crystalline silica – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 24 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319G	r 319G Give information about crystalline silica substances	Anyone who manufactures or supplies a crystalline silica substance must provide written information stating: the percent...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319H	r 319H Review and revise crystalline silica substance information	Manufacturers and suppliers of any crystalline silica substance must check the r 319G(1) information for that substance,...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319J	r 319J Identify high risk crystalline silica work before starting a process	Before undertaking any crystalline silica process, or a combination of them, each employer, and each self-employed perso...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319K-1	r 319K(1) Make a written record of the silica risk assessment	Employers and self-employed persons who assess under r 319J(1)(a) must put in writing how each factor in r 319J(2) was t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319K-2	r 319K(2) Keep the silica risk assessment record while the process continues	Whoever made the r 319K(1) record (employer or self-employed person) must retain it for as long as the silica process, o...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319K-3	r 319K(3) Make the silica risk assessment record accessible to employees and HSRs	For the whole time the silica process or combination runs at the workplace, an employer who made a r 319K(1) record must...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319L-1	r 319L(1) Prepare a CSHCS before high risk crystalline silica work and follow it	No employer, and no self-employed person, may carry out high risk crystalline silica work (HRCSW) unless a crystalline s...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319L-2	r 319L(2) Stop high risk crystalline silica work that departs from the CSHCS	If HRCSW is not being done in line with its CSHCS, the employer or self-employed person concerned must halt the work at...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319M	r 319M Review and revise the CSHCS	Employers and self-employed persons doing HRCSW must review the CSHCS required by r 319L, and revise it if needed, each...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319N	r 319N Keep a copy of the CSHCS for the duration of the work	Employers and self-employed persons must retain a copy of each CSHCS until the HRCSW it covers is finished. The copy is...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319O	r 319O Sample and analyse material before quarrying or tunnelling work	Where HRCSW involves quarrying or tunnelling, the employer or self-employed person concerned must, before the work start...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319Q	r 319Q Inform job applicants about crystalline silica risks	An employer must make sure that anyone applying for a job with the employer that involves HRCSW receives information abo...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319R	r 319R Information, instruction and training for employees in high risk silica work	Employers must see that any employee who is likely to face risks from HRCSW receives information, instruction and traini...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319S	r 319S Use water suppression, on tool extraction or LEV on engineered stone tools	When a power tool or other mechanical plant is used for an engineered stone process, the employer, or the self-employed...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319T	r 319T Design and install engineered stone dust control systems	An employer or self-employed person required by r 319S to use a dust control system must make sure it is designed and in...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319U	r 319U Use and maintain engineered stone dust control systems	An employer or self-employed person required by r 319S to use a dust control system must ensure it is operated and maint...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319V-1	r 319V(1) Provide respiratory protective equipment for engineered stone processes	An employer must provide respiratory protective equipment to each employee who carries out an engineered stone process....
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319V-2	r 319V(2) Ensure employees use the respiratory protective equipment	An employer must make sure each employee who has been issued respiratory protective equipment under r 319V(1) actually w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319W	r 319W Train engineered stone tool users and RPE wearers	An employer must ensure an employee who operates a power tool or other mechanical plant for an engineered stone process...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319X	r 319X Do not clean with compressed air in engineered stone areas	No employer or self-employed person may use compressed air or any other compressed gas, or have anyone else use it, to c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319Y	r 319Y Engineered stone benchtops, panels and slabs prohibition	From 1 July 2024 (as substituted by the 2024 amending regulations), employers, self-employed persons and anyone who mana...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319ZC	r 319ZC Specialist-supervised health monitoring for former engineered stone licence holders	This applies to an employer who, just before 1 July 2024, held an engineered stone licence (as defined in r 5 as then in...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319ZD	r 319ZD Send health monitoring reports to the Authority within 30 days	An employer required to arrange health monitoring under r 319ZC must give the Authority a copy of every health monitorin...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r319ZE	r 319ZE Statement of work for employees of former engineered stone licence holders	Where an employer, just before 1 July 2024, held an engineered stone licence and employed someone who worked with manufa...

Part 5.1: Construction – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

28 controls

Controls in the Part 5.1: Construction – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 28 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r325	r 325 Control risks associated with construction work	Employers and self-employed persons must eliminate risks associated with construction work as far as reasonably practica...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r326	r 326 Review and revise construction risk control measures	Employers and self-employed persons must review, and revise where necessary, measures controlling construction work risk...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r327-1a	r 327(1)(a) Prepare a SWMS before high risk construction work starts	No employer, and no self-employed person, may carry out high risk construction work (any r 322 category) that involves a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r327-1b	r 327(1)(b) Perform high risk construction work in accordance with the SWMS	Having prepared the SWMS, the employer or self-employed person may only carry out the high risk construction work in lin...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r327-2	r 327(2) Stop work that does not comply with the SWMS	If work is not complying with its SWMS, the employer, or the self-employed person, must stop that work straight away, or...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r328	r 328 Review and revise the SWMS	An employer or self-employed person carrying out high risk construction work that needs a SWMS under r 327 must review t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r329	r 329 Keep a copy of the SWMS for the duration of the work	Employers and self-employed persons must hold a copy of the SWMS until the high risk construction work it covers is comp...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r330	r 330 Provide site-specific OHS training	An employer must ensure that each person employed to do construction work receives occupational health and safety traini...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r331-2	r 331(2) and (3) Establish engulfment emergency procedures before work starts	Where construction work carries a risk of a person being engulfed by soil or other material, the employer, or the self-e...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r331-4	r 331(4) Control the risks of carrying out the engulfment rescue	Employers and self-employed persons must make sure that risks created by carrying out the engulfment emergency procedure...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r331-5	r 331(5) Carry out engulfment emergency procedures immediately	When a person becomes engulfed, or is likely to become engulfed, the employer, or the self-employed person, must have th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r334	r 334 Display principal contractor signage	A principal contractor must erect signs, clearly visible from outside the construction workplace, giving the principal c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r335-a	r 335(a) Prepare a health and safety co-ordination plan before work starts	Before construction work starts, the project's principal contractor must draw up a co-ordination plan for health and saf...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r335-b	r 335(b) Monitor, maintain and update the co-ordination plan	Throughout the construction work, the principal contractor must monitor, maintain and update the co-ordination plan so i...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r336	r 336 Content of the health and safety co-ordination plan	The co-ordination plan prepared by the principal contractor must contain: the names, positions and responsibilities of e...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r337-1	r 337(1) Keep the co-ordination plan and make it available for inspection	For the whole construction project the principal contractor must retain the co-ordination plan and every revision, and w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r337-2	r 337(2) Make each worker aware of the co-ordination plan before they start	Before any person begins construction work at the workplace, the principal contractor must make sure that person knows a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r339	r 339 Provide construction induction training	Subject to the r 342 exemptions, an employer must arrange construction induction training for any employee engaged to do...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r340	r 340 Hold a current construction induction card to do construction work	Subject to the r 342 exemptions, no person may carry out construction work at a workplace without holding a current cons...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r341	r 341 Do not knowingly allow a worker without a current card to do construction work	Subject to the r 342 exemptions, an employer must not knowingly permit any of its employees to do construction work with...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r342	r 342 Meet the conditions of the construction induction exemptions	Rules 339 to 341 do not apply: (1) for the first 28 days of employment of a person who has done no construction work in...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r343	r 343 Do not refuse to accept valid induction evidence	Employers must not knowingly reject any of the following when a person offers it: a current construction induction card;...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r344	r 344 Apply for a construction induction card with the required evidence and fee	Without limiting r 532, an applicant for a construction induction card must supply any identity evidence the Authority r...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r348-1	r 348(1) Do not destroy, alter or deface a construction induction card	Apart from the Authority, nobody may deliberately or recklessly damage beyond use, change, or deface a construction indu...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r352	r 352 Keep the construction induction card available for inspection	A person holding a construction induction card must keep it on hand so it can be produced at once if an inspection is re...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r353	r 353 Tell the Authority about changes to card information	When any information a card holder has given the Authority about their construction induction card changes, whether supp...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r355-1	r 355(1) Notify the Authority at least 3 days before construction excavation work	Any employer, and any self-employed person, planning construction excavation of a shaft, a trench or a tunnel must notif...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r355-2	r 355(2) Include the required details in the excavation notice	The excavation notice must be written and must state: the name of whoever is giving the notice; who will directly superv...

Part 5.2: Major hazard facilities – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

34 controls

Controls in the Part 5.2: Major hazard facilities – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 34 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r356	r 356(3) Registered MHF operator meets Divisions 6, 7 and 9 as far as reasonably practicable	Although Divisions 6 (safety duties), 7 (property protection) and 9 (consultation, information and training) do not appl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r358	r 358 Operate a major hazard facility only if licensed or registered	No person may run a major hazard facility unless either a major hazard facility licence for it has been granted under Pa...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r359	r 359(3) Provide information required by an Authority notice	Where the Authority issues a written notice requiring an operator, or a person who intends to become an operator, to pro...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r360	r 360 Notify the Authority when Schedule 14 materials exceed 10% of threshold	Where Schedule 14 materials are, or are likely to be, at a facility in excess of 10% of the threshold quantity, the faci...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r361	r 361 Advise the Authority of changes to notified information	After giving a notice under r 360(1) that remains current, the operator must tell the Authority in writing about any cha...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r367	r 367 Provide and follow a safety case outline for a registered MHF	Within 90 days after registration of an MHF commences, its operator must give the Authority an outline of the safety cas...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r368	r 368 Identify major incidents and major incident hazards	The operator of an MHF must identify every major incident hazard, and every major incident possible at the facility. All...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r369-370	rr 369 to 370 Conduct, document and keep available a safety assessment	The operator of an MHF must carry out a comprehensive, systematic safety assessment of all potential major incidents and...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r371	r 371 Eliminate or reduce the risk of a major incident	The operator of an MHF must, as far as reasonably practicable, remove any chance of a major incident. If removal cannot...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r372-373	rr 372 to 373 Establish, use and keep available a safety management system	The operator of an MHF must set up and operate a safety management system that gives a comprehensive and integrated syst...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r374	r 374 Review the safety management system at least every 5 years	The operator of an MHF must review the safety management system, and revise it where needed, no less often than once eve...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r375	r 375 Prepare an emergency plan for the major hazard facility	The operator of an MHF must prepare an emergency plan, which counts as one of its r 371 risk control measures. The plan...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r376	r 376 Keep the emergency plan on site and send copies to emergency services and councils	Once the emergency plan is prepared, the operator of an MHF must keep one copy of the plan on the facility premises for...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r377	r 377 Test the MHF emergency plan at intervals of no more than 3 years	The operator of an MHF must test its emergency plan at suitable intervals, which may not exceed 3 years, and must do all...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r378	r 378 Activate the emergency plan and notify emergency services when a major incident occurs	An MHF operator who has prepared an emergency plan must put it into effect at once if a major incident happens, or if so...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r379	r 379 Review hazards, assessment, controls and emergency plan	To ensure it is meeting r 371, an MHF operator must review, and revise where needed, the identified major incident hazar...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r380	r 380 Develop and review a safety role for employees	The operator of an MHF must develop a safety role for its employees, setting out the specific procedures they must follo...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r381	r 381 Adopt controls to limit property damage from dangerous goods	For Schedule 14 materials that also count as dangerous goods, the operator of an MHF must adopt risk control measures to...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r382	r 382 Conduct a property protection assessment	To comply with r 381, the operator of an MHF must carry out a comprehensive, systematic property protection assessment o...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r383	r 383 Review the property protection assessment	The operator of an MHF must review, and revise where needed, the current property protection assessment if the circumsta...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r384	r 384 Prepare a safety case and provide it to the Authority	Before it can be granted an MHF licence under Part 6.1, an operator has to prepare a safety case in line with Part 5.2 a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r385	r 385 Include the required content and signed statement in the safety case	A safety case must contain the Schedule 17 information and must show that the safety management system is a comprehensiv...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r386	r 386 Share hazard information when safety cases must be co-ordinated	Where the Authority requires the operators of two or more MHFs to co-ordinate preparation of their safety cases, each op...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r387	r 387 Review, revise and resubmit the safety case	The operator of an MHF must review and revise its safety case when controls are revised under r 379, when it intends to...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r388	r 388 Consult employees and HSRs on MHF safety matters	For the purposes of s 35(1) of the Act, MHF operators must consult employees and health and safety representatives about...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r389	r 389 Provide and maintain MHF information, instruction and training	The operator of an MHF must give its employees information, instruction and training about: the kinds of major incident...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r390	r 390 Record MHF training for the duration of employment	The operator of an MHF must record every item of training given to an employee under r 389 and keep it for as long as th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r391	r 391 Inform employees of the safety case and give access to key documents	To comply with r 389, the operator of an MHF must tell its employees what the safety case contains, including any revisi...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r392	r 392 Respond to employee alerts about possible major incidents	When an employee at an MHF informs the operator under r 398(c) of a circumstance that could lead to a major incident, th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r393	r 393 Inform and instruct visitors and contractors at the MHF	The operator of an MHF must ensure that any person who is not its employee and enters the facility is promptly, as soon...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r394-395	rr 394 to 395 Provide safety information to the local community	The operator of an MHF must give the local community and the municipal councils for its area information about the facil...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r396	r 396 Consult municipal councils when preparing or revising the safety case	While it prepares or revises its Division 8 safety case, the operator of an MHF must consult the municipal councils with...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r397	r 397 Provide community information to a concerned person on request	If an MHF operator gets a request in writing from someone who reasonably believes a major incident at the facility could...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r398	r 398 Employee duties at a major hazard facility	An employee at an MHF must: follow the operator's procedures for preventing and controlling major incidents; follow the...

Part 5.3: Mines – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

42 controls

Controls in the Part 5.3: Mines – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 42 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r404	r 404 Identify mining hazards and assess their risks	Every mine operator must, as far as reasonably practicable, identify every mining hazard at the mine and assess the risk...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r405	r 405 Control mining hazard risks using the hierarchy of controls	Every mine operator must eliminate risks associated with mining hazards as far as reasonably practicable. Where eliminat...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r406	r 406 Review mining hazard identification, risk assessment and controls	To ensure compliance with r 405(1), every mine operator must review, and revise where needed, the identification of mini...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r408	r 408 Control mine entry and restrict young workers	Every mine operator must ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that nobody enters without permission, other than ins...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r409	r 409 Manage alcohol and drug risks at the mine	Every mine operator must devise and put in place strategies to protect people at the mine from health and safety risks c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r410	r 410 Manage employee fatigue risks	Every mine operator must devise and put in place strategies to control risks arising from employee fatigue. Those strate...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r411	r 411 Arrange ongoing health monitoring for mine workers	Every mine operator must arrange continuing health monitoring for an employee whose work exposes them to a mining hazard...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r412	r 412 Obtain a health monitoring report	For health monitoring under r 411, the mine operator must ensure that the person who carried it out prepares a report co...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r413	r 413 Notify the Authority of removal or reassignment after adverse health findings	If a health monitoring report under r 412 shows adverse health effects for a person, and the operator acts on that repor...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r414	r 414 Return the health monitoring report when a person stops working at the mine	When a person to whom a health monitoring report relates ceases working at the mine, the operator must return to that pe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r415	r 415 Provide communication for employees working alone	Every mine operator must ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that effective means of communication are available w...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r416	r 416 Run a shift change-over reporting system	Every mine operator must ensure a system exists under which each outgoing shift supervisor gives the incoming shift supe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r418-419	rr 418 to 419 Establish, use and keep available a prescribed mine safety management system	A prescribed mine's operator must set up and operate a safety management system that comprehensively integrates all cont...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r420	r 420 Review the prescribed mine SMS at least every 3 years	A prescribed mine's operator must review the safety management system, and revise it where needed, at least once every 3...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r421-422	rr 421 to 422 Conduct, document and keep available a safety assessment of major mining hazards	A prescribed mine's operator must carry out a comprehensive, systematic safety assessment investigating and analysing ma...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r423	r 423 Test controls for major mining hazards	A prescribed mine's operator must test every risk control measure documented under r 418(3)(d) for major mining hazards...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r423A	r 423A Prescribed mine operator notifies Authority of Schedule 14 materials above 10%	Where Schedule 14 materials are, or are likely to be, at a prescribed mine in excess of 10% of the threshold quantity, t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r423B	r 423B Advise the Authority of changes to prescribed mine notice information	If any information a prescribed mine operator gave the Authority in a notice under r 423A(1) that is ongoing changes, th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r424	r 424 Develop and review a safety role for prescribed mine employees	A prescribed mine's operator must develop a safety role for its employees, including the specific procedures they must f...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r425	r 425 Ensure safe shafts and winding systems	A prescribed mine's operator must ensure each shaft winding system has regularly tested ropes able to carry the load a c...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r426	r 426 Manage workings approaching water, gas or other workings	Where underground workings are, or may be, close to or heading towards an area containing water, or gas that is flammabl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r427	r 427 Provide and maintain a second means of exit	Where a prescribed mine is accessed by a sunk shaft, a decline or an adit, its operator must, as far as reasonably pract...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r428	r 428 Ensure fill material is safe	A prescribed mine's operator must ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that material used to fill mined-out areas d...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r429	r 429 Maintain a safe underground working environment	A prescribed mine's operator must ensure that air throughout places where people work or travel, or may work or travel,...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r430	r 430 Design, maintain and test the ventilation system	A prescribed mine's operator must ensure that ventilation circuits prevent air recirculating; structures regulating airf...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r431	r 431 Record ventilation monitoring and testing	A prescribed mine's operator must make and keep a record of its ventilation monitoring and testing under r 430. The reco...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r432	r 432 Keep prohibited engines and polyurethane foam out of the underground mine	A prescribed mine's operator must not permit any internal combustion engine unless it is of the compression ignition typ...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r433	r 433 Prepare, keep and implement the prescribed mine emergency plan	A prescribed mine's operator must prepare an emergency plan addressing all aspects of emergency response, including a sy...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r434	r 434 Keep the mine emergency plan on site and send copies	After preparing an emergency plan, a prescribed mine's operator must keep a copy at the mine for emergency services to u...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r435	r 435 Test the mine emergency plan at least once a year	A prescribed mine's operator must test its emergency plan at least once every year to ensure it remains effective, and m...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r436	r 436 Provide self-rescuers and train people in their use	An underground mine's operator must ensure that every person going underground is given a self-contained self-rescuer as...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r437-438	rr 437 to 438 Keep an accurate mine plan available	A prescribed mine's operator must ensure a detailed mine plan is kept at the mine that clearly shows: the workings, incl...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r439	r 439 Consult employees and HSRs on mine safety matters	For section 35(1) of the Act, every mine operator must consult on developing and implementing alcohol, drug and fatigue...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r440	r 440 Explain adopted and rejected controls for major mining hazards	If an operator, having consulted under s 35 of the Act, adopts a risk control measure for a major mining hazard, it must...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r441	r 441 Provide and maintain mine information, instruction and training	Every mine operator must give its employees at the mine information, instruction and training on all mining hazards, how...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r442	r 442 Record mine training for the duration of employment	Every mine operator must record each item of training given to an employee under r 441 and retain the record for as long...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r443	r 443 Make key documents accessible to prescribed mine employees	A prescribed mine's operator must ensure its employees can readily access the documented safety management system, the e...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r444	r 444 Respond to employee alerts about major mining hazards	When an employee at a prescribed mine informs the operator under r 448(c) of a possible major mining hazard, the operato...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r445	r 445 Inform and instruct non-employees entering a mine	Every mine operator must ensure that anyone who is not its employee and enters the mine is promptly, as soon as reasonab...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r446	r 446 Inform job applicants about required health monitoring	Before employing an applicant for work at a mine, the employer must tell them what the medical examinations and any othe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r447	r 447 Employee duties at a mine	An employee of a mine operator must wear or use PPE or rescue equipment supplied by the operator as instructed; follow t...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r448	r 448 Employee duties about major mining hazards at a prescribed mine	Employees at a prescribed mine must take part in testing the emergency plan, follow the plan when it is activated, and i...

Part 6.1: Licences – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

31 controls

Controls in the Part 6.1: Licences – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 31 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r449	r 449 Include the required declarations and details in a licence application	Every person seeking a licence must put the following into the application: any proof of identity the Authority asks for...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r450	r 450 Pay the high risk work licence application fee for each class	Anyone seeking a high risk work licence must send the application fee with it. The fee is 4.5 fee units for every class...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r451	r 451 Pay the asbestos removal licence application or renewal fee	An applicant for a new or renewed asbestos removal licence must pay the fee fixed by the table for the licence class and...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r458	r 458 Attach a notice of assessment (satisfactory) to a high risk work licence application	Besides the general application content in r 449, a high risk work licence applicant must lodge with the application a n...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r460	r 460 Only an employer or self-employed person may apply for an asbestos removal licence	Asbestos removal licences are issued to businesses, not to individual workers. Eligibility is limited to employers and s...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r461	r 461 Perform only the asbestos removal work the licence covers	An asbestos removal licence authorises only the removal work named in it, so the holder must not take on removal of a ty...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r462-1	r 462(1) Include supervisor, training, equipment and history details in an asbestos removal licence application	An applicant for any asbestos removal licence must add to the general application: the specific asbestos types to be rem...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r462-2	r 462(2) Provide asbestos safety management system certification or audit evidence for a Class A application	A Class A asbestos removal licence applicant must also lodge either details of the current certification of its asbestos...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r463-2	r 463(2) Obtain asbestos management system certification by the licence deadline	Where a Class A asbestos removal licence is granted to a holder that does not yet have current certification of its asbe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r464	r 464 Apply for a carcinogens licence only as the employer or self-employed person for that workplace	Eligibility for a carcinogens licence is limited to employers and self-employed persons, and the licence can be granted...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r465	r 465 Include substance, use, risk control and supplier details in a carcinogens licence application	An applicant for a carcinogens licence must give, for the scheduled carcinogenic substance concerned: its name; the addr...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r466	r 466 Pay the processing fee before a carcinogens licence is granted	The Authority cannot grant a carcinogens licence until the applicant has paid 7.9 fee units for every hour the Authority...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r467	r 467 Only the registered operator may apply for a major hazard facility licence	A major hazard facility licence may be sought only by the operator who holds the Part 6.2 registration for that facility...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r468	r 468 Apply for a major hazard facility licence at least 6 months before registration expires	Where a registered major hazard facility is to be licensed, its operator must lodge the licence application with the Aut...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r469	r 469 Include facility identification and the safety case in a major hazard facility licence application	A person seeking a major hazard facility licence has to provide, in addition to the general application content, enough...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r472	r 472 Pay the processing fee before a major hazard facility licence is granted	The Authority cannot grant a major hazard facility licence until the applicant has paid 9.3 fee units per hour spent pro...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r474	r 474 Comply with the terms and conditions of the licence	Every licence holder must observe the terms and conditions the Authority has placed on the licence under Division 2 (on...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r475	r 475 Notify the Authority in writing of changes to licence information	A licence holder must tell the Authority in writing about any change to information it has supplied in connection with i...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r476-1	r 476(1) Keep the high risk work licence available for inspection	Each high risk work licence holder has to keep their evidence of licence document on hand so that it can be produced whe...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r476-2	r 476(2) Keep other licences available for inspection	Holders of asbestos removal, carcinogens and major hazard facility licences must hold their evidence of licence document...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r477	r 477 Apply for a replacement when an evidence of licence document is lost, stolen or destroyed	If the licence document goes missing, is stolen or is destroyed, the holder may seek a replacement from the Authority, u...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r478	r 478 Nominate additional asbestos removal supervisors with training details	An asbestos removal licence holder that wants another person recognised as a supervisor of the licensed work must apply...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r481	r 481 Make a copy of the major hazard facility licence available to employees and emergency services	In addition to keeping the licence available for inspection, a major hazard facility licence holder has to make sure tha...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r484-2	r 484(2) Return the old licence document within 14 days of a written request after amendment	When the Authority has amended a licence it supplies an updated evidence of licence document. If the Authority then asks...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r485	r 485 Apply to renew a non-high risk work licence within the permitted time	Holders of asbestos removal, carcinogens and major hazard facility licences may seek renewal only if they apply at least...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r490	r 490 Renew a high risk work licence with a competency declaration and within 12 months of expiry	A high risk work licence holder may apply to renew; so may a person living in Victoria (or with reasonable grounds to ap...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r492	r 492 Pay the renewal fee for a high risk work or asbestos removal licence	Renewing a high risk work licence costs 3.4 fee units, payable with the application. A Class A asbestos removal licence...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r493	r 493 Pay the processing fee before a carcinogens licence is renewed	Before the Authority may renew a carcinogens licence, the holder must have paid 7.9 fee units per hour it took the Autho...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r494	r 494 Lodge a revised safety case with a major hazard facility licence renewal	An operator seeking renewal of its major hazard facility licence must include, besides the other required information, a...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r495	r 495 Pay the processing fee before a major hazard facility licence is renewed	The Authority will only renew a major hazard facility licence once the holder has paid 9.3 fee units for every hour the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r506	r 506 Surrender the licence document on demand after suspension or cancellation	Once a suspension or cancellation has taken effect, the licence holder must hand the evidence of licence document back t...

Part 6.2: Registration – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

15 controls

Controls in the Part 6.2: Registration – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 domain of Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 — 15 controls
Code	Title	Description
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r508	r 508 Lodge a plant design registration application with identity evidence and a 20 fee unit fee	A person applying to register a plant design must include the information that r 509 requires, any proof of identity the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r509	r 509 Include the design verification statement, drawing and required details in a design registration application	A plant design registration application must contain: where the design work began from 1 July 1995 onward, a design veri...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r510-1	r 510(1) Use an independent, competent design verifier for post-1995 designs	An applicant registering a plant design whose design work began from 1 July 1995 onward has to ensure the design verific...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r510-1A	r 510(1A) Use an independent verifier to check pre-1995 amusement structure designs against AS 3533.1-2009	For an amusement structure listed in Schedule 2 whose design work began before 1 July 1995, the applicant must ensure th...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r510-2	r 510(2) A designer must not act as verifier of their own design	A person involved in preparing a plant design is barred from knowingly serving as the design verifier for that design. T...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r510A	r 510A Applicant and verifier for amusement structure design registration must reside in Australia	For an application to register the design (original or altered) of an amusement structure listed in Schedule 2, both the...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r513B	r 513B Apply for or renew amusement structure item registration with the fee and before expiry	An application to register an amusement structure as an item of plant has to contain the information in r 513C(1), any p...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r513C	r 513C Include identification, inspection and design registration evidence in an item registration application	A first registration application for an amusement structure item must identify the item clearly, include a statement no...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r513L-1	r 513L(1) Give the item of plant registration number to the person managing the amusement structure	As soon as practicable after the Authority issues an item of plant registration number, the registration holder must pas...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r513L-2	r 513L(2) Mark the registration number clearly and durably on the amusement structure	Whoever manages or controls a registered amusement structure must ensure its item of plant registration number is marked...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r513L-3	r 513L(3) Notify the Authority of a change of ownership within 30 days	When ownership of a registered amusement structure changes, the registration holder must tell the Authority, in the form...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r513L-4	r 513L(4) Notify the Authority of an alteration that requires new risk controls within 30 days	If a registered amusement structure is altered so much that new measures to control risk are needed, the registration ho...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r514	r 514 Apply to register a proposed major hazard facility with Schedule 18 information	Registration may be sought by anyone intending to run a major hazard facility, and the application must contain the info...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r522	r 522 Keep the notice of registration or interstate recognition available for inspection	Anyone holding a registration or interstate recognition under Part 6.2 must have the notice of registration, or the cert...
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r523	r 523 Notify the Authority in writing of changes to registration information	A person holding a registration must tell the Authority in writing about any change to information they have supplied ab...

What is Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 and who does it apply to?

Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 is a compliance framework from Australia: Victoria with 19 domains and 442 controls. Victoria's principal occupational health and safety regulations: consultation and issue resolution, manual handling, noise, prevention of falls, confined spaces, plant, high risk work licences, hazardous substances, carcinogens, lead, asbestos, crystalline silica and engineered stone, construction (safe work method statements, construction induction, excavation), major hazard facilities, mines, licensing and registration. It is used by organisations to establish and maintain compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

What does Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 actually require?

Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 has 442 controls organised across 19 domains. The largest domains are Part 4.4: Asbestos – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (110 controls), Part 3.5: Plant – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (45 controls), Part 5.3: Mines – Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (42 controls). Each control defines specific requirements that organisations must implement to achieve compliance.

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