Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 46

    (1)     If an employer uses only an administrative control in accordance with regulation 44(5)(b) to reduce a risk associated with a fall, the employer must, before the task is undertaken, record—

        (a)     a description of the administrative control used; and

        (b)     a description of the task to which the administrative control relates.

Penalty:     60 penalty units for a natural person;

    300 penalty units for a body corporate.

    (2)     In complying with subregulation (1), an employer may make a generic record in respect of a task to which an administrative control relates if the task will be undertaken in the same or similar circumstances at more than one workplace or at more than one area within a workplace.

    (3)     The employer must keep a record made under this regulation for the period during which the task to which the administrative control relates is being undertaken.

Penalty:     60 penalty units for a natural person;

    300 penalty units for a body corporate.

    (4)     The preparation of a safe work method statement in accordance with regulation 327 is to be taken to be compliance with subregulation (1).