Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 28

    (1)     An employer must review and, if necessary, revise any measures implemented to control risks under regulation 27—

        (a)     before any alteration is made to any thing, process or system of work involving hazardous manual handling, including a change in the place where that work is undertaken; or

        (b)     if new or additional information about hazardous manual handling becomes available to the employer; or

        (c)     if an occurrence of a musculoskeletal disorder at a workplace is reported by or on behalf of an employee; or

        (d)     after any incident occurs to which Part 5 of the Act applies that involves hazardous manual handling; 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—section 21 (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) exists; or

        (b)     the employer 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.

Division 1—Duties of designers, manufacturers and suppliers of plant