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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS 1996 - REG 6.2

6.2 .         High risk work licence needed to do high risk work

        (1)         A person must not do high risk work of a particular class unless the person holds a high risk work licence for that class of work.

        Penalty: the regulation 1.15 penalty.

        (2)         Subregulation (1) does not apply to a person who does high risk work of a particular class if —

            (a)         the person —

                  (i)         is enrolled with a registered training organisation to do training in the work; and

                  (ii)         is being supervised by a person who holds a high risk work licence for that class of work;

                or

            (b)         the person’s competency to do the work is being assessed by an assessor; or

            (c)         the person has a notice of satisfactory assessment for that class of work which was issued to the person not more than 60 days before; or

            (d)         the person has applied under Division 2 for a licence for that class of work and the application has not been finalised; or

            (e)         the person has applied under Division 2 for variation of a licence seeking authority to do work of that class and the application has not been finalised; or

            (f)         the equipment with which the person is doing the work is being used or operated —

                  (i)         in the course of its manufacture, maintenance or repair; and

                  (ii)         at the workplace at which it is being manufactured, maintained or repaired; and

                  (iii)         without a load.

        (3)         A person who, at a workplace, is an employer, the main contractor, a self‑employed person, a person having control of the workplace or a person having control of access to the workplace must not direct or allow another person (the worker ) to do high risk work of a particular class if, by doing the work, the worker would commit an offence under subregulation (1).

        Penalty: the regulation 1.16 penalty.

        [Regulation 6.2 inserted in Gazette 24 Aug 2007 p. 4263‑5.]

[ 6.2A.         Deleted in Gazette 24 Aug 2007 p. 4262.]



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