Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1996 No. 129 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) (NATIONAL STANDARDS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 5

5.1 Add at the end of the Regulations:
                   "SCHEDULE 5                Paragraphs  4.05 (2) (d)

and 4.51 (4) (b)
PLANT STANDARDS
Australian Standard Title
  AS 1200    Boilers and Pressure Vessels (known as 'SAA Boiler Code')

  AS 1418    Cranes (including Hoists and Winches) (known as 'SAA

Crane Code')
  AS 1576    Scaffolding

  AS 2030    SAA Gas Cylinders Code

  AS 3509    LP (liquefied petroleum) Gas Fuel Vessels for Automotive

Use
  AS 3533    Amusement Rides and Devices

  AS 3920    Part 1

Pressure Equipment Manufacture-Assurance of Product Quality
(ME/1/21 Standard)

                     "SCHEDULE 6              Paragraph 4.19 (2) (a),
subregulations 4.40 (1),
4.47 (1), 4.49 (1), 4.51

(1) and 4.56 (1)
ITEMS OF PLANT
PART 1-PLANT REQUIRING REGISTRATION OR NOTIFICATION OF DESIGN
  Item No.    Description of plant

   1    Pressure equipment, other than pressure piping, that have a

hazard level of A, B, C or D, determined in accordance with AS
3920, Part 1 ('Pressure Equipment Manufacture-Assurance of
Product Quality (ME/1/21 Standard) AMBSC')
   2    Gas cylinders covered by AS 2030

   3    Tower cranes1

   4    Building maintenance units

   5    Hoists, with a platform movement in excess of 2.4 metres,

designed to lift people1
   6    Work boxes suspended from cranes

   7    Amusement structures covered by AS 3533 ('Amusement Rides and

Devices'), other than class 1 structures
   8    Prefabricated scaffolding

   9    Boom-type elevating work platforms

  10    Gantry cranes (1):


   (a)  with a safe working load greater than 5 tonnes; or

   (b)  designed to handle molten metal or dangerous goods (2)
  11    Bridge cranes (1):


   (a)  with a safe working load of 10 tonnes; or

   (b)  designed to handle molten metal or dangerous goods (2)
  12    Vehicle hoists (1)

  13    Mast climbing work platforms (1)

  14    Mobile cranes with a safe working load greater than 10

tonnes (1)
PART 2-PLANT REQUIRING A LICENCE
Item No.    Description of plant

   1    Boilers that have a hazard level of A, B, C or D determined in

accordance with AS 3920, Part 1 ('Pressure Equipment
Manufacture-Assurance of Product Quality (ME/1/21 Standard)
AMBSC')
   2    Pressure vessels that have a hazard level of A, B or C,

determined in accordance with AS 3920, Part 1 ('Pressure
Equipment Manufacture-Assurance of Product Quality (ME/1/21
Standard) AMBSC') other than:

   (a)  gas cylinders referred to in AS 2030 ('SAA Gas Cylinders
Code'); and

   (b)  LP gas fuel vessels for automotive use referred to in AS
3509 ('LP (liquefied petroleum) Gas Fuel Vessels for
Automotive Use'); and

   (c)  serially produced pressure vessels referred to in AS 2971
   3    Tower cranes (1)

   4    Building maintenance units

   5    Amusement structures covered by AS 3533 ('Amusement Rides and

Devices'), other than class 1 structures
   6    Truck-mounted concrete placing units with booms (1)

   7    Mobile cranes with a safe working load greater than 10

tonnes (1) NOTES: (1). For the purposes of licensing, cranes and hoists in
Schedule 6 exclude those that are manually powered, elevating work platforms
or tow trucks. (2). 'Dangerous goods' means dangerous goods as defined in the
Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail, 5th
Edition, published by the Federal Office of Road Safety in September 1992.".