Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) This regulation applies to a lift over which an employer or self-employed person has management or control, including a lift over which the employer or self-employed person has management or control of its maintenance.
(2) The employer or self-employed person must—
(a) if there is a risk of a person falling down a lift well, provide—
(i) secure barriers to prevent access to openings into the lift well by a person other than a person who is performing work in the lift well; and
(ii) secure working platforms or equivalent arrangements for a person who is working in the lift well to prevent a fall from height; and
(b) if there is a risk to a person working in a lift well as a result of objects falling onto the person, provide a secure barrier to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, falling objects from striking the person or otherwise causing a risk; and
(c) if there is a risk to a person working in a lift well as a result of movement of a lift car, take steps to ensure that the risk is eliminated or, if it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate the risk, reduced so far as is reasonably practicable.
Note
Act compliance—sections 21, 23 and 24 (see regulation 7).