Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations In this Part, unless
the contrary intention appears —
alter , in relation to plant, means to change the
design of, add to or take away from the plant where the change may affect
safety or health, but does not include routine maintenance, repairs or
replacement;
boiler means a vessel or an arrangement of vessels
and their interconnecting parts in which steam or other vapour is generated or
in which water or other liquid is heated at a pressure above that of the
atmosphere by the application of fire, the products of combustion, electrical
power or by similar high temperature means and —
(a)
includes superheaters, reheaters, economisers, boiler piping, supports,
mountings, valves, gauges, fittings, controls, the boiler setting and other
equipment directly associated equipment with the boiler;
(b) does
not include a fully flooded or pressurized system where water or other liquid
is heated to a temperature lower than the normal atmospheric boiling
temperature of the liquid;
boom‑type elevating work platform means a
telescoping device, hinged device, articulated device or any combination of
these used to support a platform on which personnel, equipment and materials
may be elevated;
bridge crane means a crane comprising a bridge
beam mounted at each end to an end carriage and capable of travelling along
elevated runways and having one or more hoisting mechanisms arranged to
traverse the bridge;
building maintenance equipment means a suspended
platform and associated equipment (including a building maintenance unit or a
swing stage) which incorporates permanently installed overhead supports to
provide access to the faces of a building for maintenance, but does not
include a suspended scaffold;
building maintenance unit means a power operated
suspended platform and associated equipment on a building specifically
designed to provide permanent access to the faces of the building for
maintenance or cleaning;
classified plant means any —
(a)
boiler;
(b)
crane;
(c)
hoist;
(d)
lift; or
(e)
pressure vessel;
commissioning means performing the necessary
adjustments, tests and inspections to ensure plant is in full working order to
specified requirements (if any) before the plant is used and includes
recommissioning;
crane means an appliance intended for raising or
lowering a load and moving it horizontally and —
(a)
includes the supporting structure of the crane and its foundations;
(b) does
not include industrial lift trucks, earthmoving machinery, tractors,
industrial robots, conveyors, building maintenance equipment, suspended
scaffolds or lifts;
danger tag means an accident prevention tag as
referred to in section 5 of AS 1319 that is in the form of a danger sign
within the meaning of that Standard;
designer means a person who designs plant for use
in a mine or intended for use in a mine or is responsible for the design of
that plant;
electrical installation means all the electrical
wiring, accessories, fittings, consuming devices, control and protective gear
and other equipment associate with the installation situated in or on mines;
electrical plant means plant which consumes,
converts or generates electricity;
elevating work platform means a telescoping
device, scissor device or articulating device or any combination of those
devices used to position personnel, equipment and materials to and from
workplaces located above the support surface;
erector means a person who erects, dismantles or
alters the structure of plant in a mine;
fault means a break or defect which may cause
plant to present an increased risk to safety and health and, in the case of a
fault in design, means an aspect of the plant design which may cause the plant
to be a risk to safety and health if manufactured in accordance with that
plant’s design specifications;
fired heater means a pressure vessel in which a
liquid is heated below its atmospheric boiling temperature or a process in
which fluid is heated in tubes above or below its atmospheric boiling
temperature by the application of fire, the products of combustion or electric
power or by similar high temperature means;
gantry crane means a crane comprising a bridge
beam supported at each end by legs mounted on end carriages which is capable
of travelling on supporting surfaces or deck levels (whether fixed or not) and
which has a crab with one or more hoisting units arranged to travel across the
bridge;
gas cylinder means a rigid pressure vessel
designed for the storage and transport of gas under pressure and to which
AS 2030 applies that does not have more than 3 000 litres water
capacity and is without openings or integral attachments on the shell other
than at the ends;
guard means a device that prevents or reduces
access to a danger point;
hoist means an appliance intended for raising or
lowering a load or persons and —
(a)
includes an elevating work platform, a mast‑climbing work platform, a
people and materials hoist, a scaffold hoist and a serial hoist;
(b) does
not include a lift or building maintenance equipment;
importer means a person who imports plant for use
in a mine or intended for use in a mine;
industrial lift truck means powered mobile plant
designed to move goods, materials or equipment and which is equipped with an
elevating load carriage and which usually has a load‑holding attachment,
but does not include a mobile crane or earthmoving machinery;
industrial robot means a multifunctional
manipulator and its controllers, capable of handling materials, parts, tools
or specialized devices, through variable programmed motions for the
performance of a variety of tasks;
installer means a person who installs plant in a
mine;
interlocked describes a connection between a guard
or a machine element with the control system or the power system of the plant
that has been made to allow access to the moving parts of plant at times when
those parts are not moving, and to prevent moving parts from starting up or
operating when access is available to those moving parts;
laser means any device than can produce or amplify
electromagnetic radiation in the wave length range from 100 nanometres to
one millimetre by the process of controlled stimulated emission but does not
include electric light globes, fluorescent light tubes, electric radiators
used for heating, radio or video communication equipment, domestic cooking
appliances using high powered lamps or navigation and search lights;
laser product means any product or assembly of
components which constitutes, incorporates or is intended to incorporate a
laser;
lift means any permanent plant (or plant that is
intended to be permanent) which is in, or attached to, a building or structure
and by means of which persons, goods or materials may be raised or lowered
within or on a car cage, or platform and the movement of which is restricted
by a guide or guides and includes an apparatus in the nature of a chair lift,
escalator, moving walk or stairway lift and any supporting structure,
machinery, equipment, gear, lift well‑ shaft, enclosures and entrances;
manufacturer means a person who manufactures plant
for use in a mine or intended for use in a mine;
mast climbing work platform means a hoist having a
working platform and which is used for temporary purposes to raise personnel
and materials to the working position by means of a drive system mounted on an
extendable mast which may be tied to a building;
mobile crane means a crane capable of running over
a supporting surface without the need for fixed runways (including railway
tracks) and relying only on gravity for stability, rather than
using —
(a) a
vertical restraining connection between itself and the supporting surface; or
(b) a
horizontal restraining connection (other than frictional forces at the
supporting surface level),
as an aid to stability;
operator protective devices includes
roll‑over protective structures, falling object protective structures,
operator restraining devices and seat belts;
out‑of‑service tag means an accident
prevention tag as referred to in Part 5 of AS 1319 in the form of a
warning sign, within the meaning of that Standard, bearing the words
“out‑of‑service”;
prefabricated scaffolding means an integrated
system of prefabricated components manufactured in such a way that the
geometry of assembled scaffolds is predetermined;
presence sensing safeguarding system
includes —
(a) a
sensing system employing one or more forms of radiation which can be either
self‑generated or generated by pressure;
(b) the
interface between the final switching devices of the sensing system and the
machine primary control elements; and
(c) the
capacity of a machine to stop when the presence of a person or part of a
person within the sensing field will cause the dangerous parts of a machine to
be brought to a safe state;
pressure equipment means boilers, pressure vessels
and pressure piping to which AS 1200 applies and having a hazard level of A,
B, C or D according to the criteria set out in Part 1 of
AS 3920;
pressure piping means an assembly of pipes, pipe
fittings, valves and pipe accessories subject to internal or external pressure
and used to contain or convey fluid or to transmit fluid pressure
and —
(a)
includes distribution headers, bolting, gaskets, pipe supports and pressure
retaining accessories;
(b) does
not include any boiler or pressure vessel or a pipeline to which any other
written law applies;
pressure vessel means a vessel subject to internal
or external pressure and —
(a)
includes interconnected parts and components, valves, gauges and other
fittings up to the first point of connection to connecting piping, fired
heaters and gas cylinder;
(b) does
not include any boiler or pressure piping;
repair means to restore plant to an operational
condition, but does not include maintenance, replacement or alteration;
scaffold means a temporary structure, specifically
erected to support access or working platforms;
scaffolding equipment means any component,
assembly or machine used or intended to be used in the construction of a
scaffold;
tower crane means a boom or jib crane mounted on a
tower structure;
vehicle hoist means a vehicle‑hoisting
device, the purpose of which is to provide accessibility for convenient
under‑chassis examination or service;
work box means a personnel carrying device
designed to be suspended from a crane for the purpose of providing a working
area for persons elevated by and working from the box.