Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 48

    ( 1)     An employer must review and, if necessary, revise any measures implemented to control risks associated with falls—

        (a)     before any alteration is made to plant or systems of work that is likely to result in a fall; or

        (b)     after any incident occurs to which Part 5 of the Act applies that involves a fall or a risk associated with a fall; or

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

        (d)     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)(d) if the health and safety representative believes on reasonable grounds that—

        (a)     any of the circumstances referred to in subregulation (1)(a), (b) and (c) exist; 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), (b) and (c) in conducting a review of, or revising, the risk control measures.