Plant & HRW SRG Meeting # 4 – 29 May 2014 – Handout 3
Plant – Guarding Hierarchy
Comparison between Victorian OHS Regulations and model WHS Regulations
Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2007
Model Work Health and Safety Regulations
Designers (r. 3.5.4 – Guarding)
Designers (r. 189 – Guarding)
(2) If a designer of plant uses guarding as a measure to control risk, the designer
must ensure that—
(3) The designer must ensure that:
(a) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is not necessary
during operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant, the guarding is a
permanently fixed physical barrier; or
(a) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is not necessary
during operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant—the guarding is a
permanently fixed physical barrier; or
(b) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is necessary during
operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant—the guarding is an
interlocked physical barrier that allows access to the area being guarded
at times when that area does not present a risk and prevents access to
that area at any other time; or
(b) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is necessary during
operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant, the guarding is an
interlocked physical barrier that allows access to the area being guarded
at times when that area does not present a risk and prevents access to
that area at any other time; or
(c) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph
(a) or (b), the guarding used is a physical barrier that can only be altered
or removed by the use of tools; or
(d) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph
(a), (b) or (c), the design includes a presence-sensing safeguarding
system that eliminates any risk arising from the area of the plant requiring
guarding while a person or any part of a person is in the area being
guarded.
Note
Act compliance—section 27 (see regulation 1.1.7).
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(c) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph
(a) or (b)—the guarding used is a physical barrier that can only be altered
or removed by the use of tools; or
(d) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph
(a), (b) or (c)—the design includes a presence-sensing safeguarding
system that eliminates any risk arising from the area of the plant requiring
guarding while a person or any part of a person is in the area being
guarded.
Maximum penalty:
In the case of an individual—$6 000.
In the case of a body corporate—$30 000.
Plant & HRW SRG Meeting # 4 – 29 May 2014 – Handout 3
Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2007
Model Work Health and Safety Regulations
Employers (r. 3.5.25 – Guarding)
Employers (r.208– Guarding)
(2) If an employer uses guarding as a measure to control risk in relation to plant,
the employer must ensure that—
(2) The person with management or control of the plant must ensure that:
(a) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is not necessary
during operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant, the guarding is a
permanently fixed physical barrier; or
(a) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is not necessary
during operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant, the guarding is a
permanently fixed physical barrier; or
(b) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is necessary during
operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant, the guarding is an
interlocked physical barrier that allows access to the area being guarded
at times when that area does not present a risk and prevents access to
that area at any other time; or
(b) if access to the area of the plant requiring guarding is necessary during
operation, maintenance or cleaning of the plant, the guarding is an
interlocked physical barrier that allows access to the area being guarded
at times when that area does not present a risk and prevents access to
that area at any other time; or
(c) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph
(a) or (b), the guarding used is a physical barrier that can only be altered
or removed by the use of tools; or
(d) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph
(a), (b) or (c), a presence-sensing safeguarding system is used that
eliminates any risk arising from the area of the plant requiring guarding
while a person or any part of a person is in the area being guarded.
Note
(c) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph
(a) or (b), the guarding used is a physical barrier that can only be altered
or removed by the use of tools; or
(d) if it is not reasonably practicable to use guarding referred to in paragraph
(a), (b) or (c), the guarding includes a presence-sensing safeguarding
system that eliminates any risk arising from the area of the plant requiring
guarding while a person or any part of a person is in the area being
guarded.
Maximum penalty:
In the case of an individual—$6 000.
In the case of a body corporate—$30 000.
Act compliance—sections 21 and 23 (see regulation 1.1.7).
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