New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 189

189 Guarding

(1) This clause applies if a designer of plant uses guarding as a control measure.

(2) The designer must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the guarding designed for that purpose will prevent access to the danger point or danger area of the plant.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--70 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--345 penalty units.

(3) The designer must ensure that--

(a) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is not necessary during operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant--the guarding is a permanently fixed physical barrier, or

(b) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is necessary during operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant--the guarding is an interlocked physical barrier that allows access to the area being guarded at times when that area does not present a risk and prevents access to that area at any other time, or

(c) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph (a) or (b)--the guarding used is a physical barrier that can only be altered or removed by the use of tools, or

(d) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c)--the design includes a presence-sensing safeguarding system that eliminates any risk arising from the area of the plant requiring guarding while a person or any part of a person is in the area being guarded.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--70 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--345 penalty units.

(4) The designer must ensure that the guarding is designed--

(a) to be of solid construction and securely mounted so as to resist impact or shock, and

(b) to make bypassing or disabling of the guarding, whether deliberately or by accident, as difficult as is reasonably practicable, and

(c) so as not to cause a risk in itself.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--70 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--345 penalty units.

(5) If the plant to be guarded contains moving parts and those parts may break or cause workpieces to be ejected from the plant, the designer must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the guarding will control any risk from those broken or ejected parts and workpieces.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--70 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--345 penalty units.

(6) Despite anything to the contrary in this clause, the designer must ensure--

(a) that the guarding is of a kind that can be removed to allow maintenance and cleaning of the plant at any time that the plant is not in normal operation, and

(b) if the guarding is removed, that, so far as is reasonably practicable, the plant cannot be restarted unless the guarding is replaced.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--70 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--345 penalty units.