Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 306C

306C Risk of fall of less than 3m in housing construction work or less than 2m in other construction work or construction work on roof with slope not over 26°

(1) This section applies to—

(a) construction work that is housing construction work during which a person could fall less than 3m; or

(b) construction work that is not housing construction work during which a person could fall less than 2m; or

(c) construction work on a roof, or partly completed roof, surface with a slope not over 26º.

(2) However, this section does not apply to construction work if a person could fall from—

(a) a ladder or fixed ladder; or

(b) a platform supported by trestle ladders; or

(c) scaffolding that the person is erecting or dismantling; or

(d) an area near a ladder that the person needs to use to get on or off the ladder.

(3) A person conducting a business or undertaking who intends to do construction work must, before the work starts—

(a) ensure each hazard that may result in a fall or cause death or injury if a person were to fall is identified; and

Examples of hazards—

• vertical reinforcing steel, or the edge of a rubbish skip, 1m below a surface from which the work is to be done

• unsheeted floor bearers and joists 2m below a surface from which the work is to be done

• an object, for example a picket fence or stack of bricks, that could cause injury if a person fell on it

• a brittle roof on which the work is to be done 2m above a floor

(b) ensure the risk of death or injury that may result because of the hazard is assessed; and

(c) ensure any control measures necessary to prevent, or minimise the level of, exposure to the risk are used.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(4) If a person conducting a business or undertaking uses a control measure mentioned in this subdivision, the control measure and the use of the control measure must comply with this subdivision.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(5) However, a fall arresting platform used as a control measure need not comply with section 306H if the fall would be internal within formwork the person is erecting or dismantling.