Queensland Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICAL SAFETY REGULATION 2013 - REG 107

107 Specified electrical equipment

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that specified electrical equipment of the person at the workplace is not used to perform work unless—

(a) it is inspected and tested by a competent person—

(i) if the equipment is double insulated—at least once every year; or

(ii) if the equipment is not double insulated—at least once every 6 months; and

(b) either—

(i) if the specified electrical equipment is connected to a socket-outlet that is in a permanent workplace under the control of the person conducting the business or undertaking—the specified electrical equipment is connected to a socket-outlet for which a type 1 safety switch, or type 2 safety switch, that is not portable, is installed; or

(ii) if the specified electrical equipment is connected to a socket-outlet that is not in a permanent workplace under the control of the person conducting the business or undertaking—the specified electrical equipment is connected to a type 1 safety switch or type 2 safety switch.

Example of a workplace that is not under the control of the person conducting a business or undertaking at the workplace—

the premises of a customer of the person conducting a business or undertaking visited by a service technician carrying out work for the person conducting a business or undertaking

Examples of specified electrical equipment used to perform manufacturing work—

• a hand held grinder plugged into a socket-outlet

• a hand held electric drill plugged into a socket-outlet that is used for drilling holes in steelwork in a light engineering workshop

(2) However—

(a) subsection (1) (b) (i) does not apply if the person conducting the business or undertaking is exempted under section 109 ; and

(b) subsection (1) (b) (i) and (ii) do not apply to a socket-outlet that is—

(i) more than 2.3m above the floor; and

(ii) provided for the purpose of supplying electricity to a luminaire or to electrical equipment with a power rating of not more than 150W.

(3) If after inspecting and testing the electrical equipment under subsection (1) (a) , a competent person decides the equipment is safe to use, the person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure the competent person immediately attaches a durable tag to the equipment that shows the prescribed details for the equipment.

(4) If after inspecting and testing the electrical equipment under subsection (1) (a) , a competent person decides the equipment is not safe to use, the person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure—

(a) the competent person immediately attaches a durable tag to the equipment that warns people not to use the equipment; and

(b) the equipment is immediately withdrawn from use.

(5) A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that, for the purposes of the business or undertaking, a tag is not attached to specified electrical equipment under subsection (3) unless—

(a) the equipment is new; or

(b) both of the following apply—

(i) the equipment has been inspected and tested by a competent person;

(ii) the tag was attached by the competent person.

Note for subsections (1) to (5)—

ES Act — section 30 (see section 8 )