Queensland Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICAL SAFETY REGULATION 2013 - REG 113

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(b) the safety switch is immediately withdrawn from use.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