Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 121

    (1)     An employer or self-employed person must review and, if necessary, revise any measures implemented to control risks associated with plant or its associated systems of work—

        (a)     before the plant is used for the first time at a workplace; or

        (b)     before any alteration is made to the plant or any change is made in the way the plant is used or in its associated systems of work, including a change in the location of the plant; or

        (c)     if new or additional information about hazards or risks relating to the plant or its associated systems of work becomes available to the employer or self-employed person; or

        (d)     after any incident occurs to which Part 5 of the Act applies that involves the plant or its associated systems of work; or

        (e)     if, for any other reason, the risk control measures do not adequately control the risks; or

        (f)     after receiving a request from a health and safety representative.

Note

Act compliance—sections 21, 23 and 24 (see regulation 7).

    (2)     A health and safety representative may make a request under subregulation (1)(f) if the health and safety representative believes on reasonable grounds that—

        (a)     any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (e) exist; or

        (b)     the employer or self-employed person has failed—

              (i)     to properly review the risk control measures; or

              (ii)     to take account of any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (e) in conducting a review of, or revising, the risk control measures.