Queensland Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICAL SAFETY REGULATION 2013 - REG 110

110 Safety switches, including portable safety switches

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must not use, or allow to be used, a safety switch unless it complies with AS/NZS 3760 (In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment) when tested.

(2) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that each safety switch, other than a portable safety switch, at the workplace—

(a) is tested by a competent person under AS/NZS 3760 immediately after it is connected; and

(b) is tested under, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760.

(3) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that each portable safety switch the person has at the workplace—

(a) is tested by pushing the test button on the safety switch immediately after it is connected; and

(b) is tested under, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760.

(4) If a safety switch is not working properly, the person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure—

(a) a durable tag is immediately attached to the safety switch that warns people not to use the safety switch; and

(b) the safety switch is immediately withdrawn from use.

Note for subsections (1) to (4)—

ES Act — section 30 (see section 8 )