Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 57

    (1)     An employer or self-employed person must,
so far as is reasonably practicable, eliminate any risk associated with work in a confined space in relation to the following—

        (a)     the introduction of any substance or condition from or by any plant or services connected to the space;

        (b)     the activation or energising in any way of any plant or services connected to the space.

    (2)     If it is not reasonably practicable for the employer or self-employed person to eliminate a risk referred to in subregulation (1), the employer or self-employed person must reduce the risk so far as is reasonably practicable.

Note

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