Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 79

    (1)     A designer of plant that is designed to be operated or attended by more than one person and has more than one emergency stop device fitted must ensure that the design provides for the emergency stop devices to be of the type that ensures that, if an emergency stop device has been used, the plant can be restarted only if—

        (a)     that emergency stop device is manually reset; and

        (b)     the start function is manually activated.

Note

Act compliance—section 27 (see regulation 7).

    (2)     A designer of plant who includes an emergency stop device for the plant must ensure that the design provides—

        (a)     for the device to be prominent, clearly and durably marked and immediately accessible to each operator of the plant; and

        (b)     for any handle, bar or push button associated with the device to be coloured red; and

        (c)     that the device cannot be adversely affected by electrical or electronic circuit malfunction.

Note

Act compliance—section 27 (see regulation 7).