Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 43

An employer must, so far as is reasonably practicable, identify any task that an employee is required to undertake at a workplace that involves a fall hazard including—

        (a)     on any plant or structure being constructed, demolished, inspected, tested, maintained, repaired or cleaned; or

        (b)     on a fragile, slippery or potentially unstable surface; or

        (c)     using equipment to gain access to an elevated level or to undertake the task at an elevated level; or

        (d)     on a sloping surface on which it is difficult to maintain balance; or

        (e)     in close proximity to an unprotected edge; or

        (f)     in close proximity to a hole, trench, shaft or pit that is of sufficient dimensions to allow a person to fall into the hole, trench, shaft or pit.

Note

Act compliance—section 21 (see regulation 7).