Safety & Compliance
Plant and equipment
Many industries use hazardous plant and industrial equipment. There are regulations regarding licensing, registration and inspection. These apply to designers, manufacturers, importers, owners and employers.
High hazardous plant includes
- lifts, for example passenger lifts in office buildings,
- moving walkways in shopping centres,
- boilers and other types of pressure equipment,
- amusement rides and devices seen at agricultural shows and regattas,
- certain types and capacity cranes and hoists,
- boom-type elevating work platforms, and
- vehicle hoists.
Plant registration:
Specified items of plant will require design registration and plant item registration records to be kept and maintained in Tasmania according to schedules 7, 8 & 9 of the Workplace Health & Safety Regulations 1998. Below you will find information on what type of plant fits into these schedules, the registration requirements and application forms.
Safety standards:
Regulations give effect to the common essential requirements from the National Standard for Plant
Boiler and Pressure systems:
Information which may assist in compliance for owners of pressure equipment
