Inspection of Machinery Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Regulations    1986    No. 5¹

Inspection of Machinery Regulations² (Amendment)

I, GORDON GLEN DENTON SCHOLES, the Minister of State for Territories, hereby make the following Regulations under the Machinery Ordinance 1949.

Dated 30 May 1986.

G. SCHOLES

Minister of State for Territories

Interpretation

1. Regulation 4 of the Inspection of Machinery Regulations is amended—

(a)by adding “and a person who has the general management of machinery in those premises” at the end of the definition of “occupier”; and

(b)by adding “, whether the machinery is in the premises on a permanent or temporary basis” at the end of the definition of “premises”.

Hearing conservation

2. Regulation 22B of the Inspection of Machinery Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(1)  An occupier of premises shall not require a person to perform work in a place in which—

(a)the daily noise dose to which the person is exposed exceeds 0.33; or

(b)the A weighted sound pressure level exceeds 115 decibels.”;

and

(b)by adding at the end the following sub-regulations:

“(4)  For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), daily noise dose shall be calculated—

(a)in accordance with the procedure set out in section 3 of Australian Standard 1269-1983; and

(b)using an instrument referred to in Australian Standard 2399-1980 as a personal noise dosemeter, being an instrument that complies with the requirements of that Standard.

“(5)  For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), the A weighted sound pressure level shall be calculated—

(a)in accordance with the procedure set out in clause 2.6 of section 2 of Australian Standard 1269-1983; and

(b)using an instrument referred to in Australian Standard 1259-1982 as a Type 1, Type 2 or Type 3 sound level meter, being an instrument that complies with the requirements of that Standard.

“(6)  In this regulation, a reference to an Australian Standard shall be read as a reference to that Standard as in force at the time the sub-regulation in which that reference appears takes effect.

“(7)  In this regulation—

‘A weighted sound pressure level’ means sound pressure level weighted in accordance with frequency weighting A;

‘daily noise dose’ has the same meaning as in Australian Standard 1269-1983;

‘frequency weighting A’ has the same meaning as in Australian Standard 1259-1982.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 June 1986.

2. Regulations 1950 No. 7 as amended by 1969 No. 1; 1974 No. 23; 1975 No. 21; 1980 No. 3; Ord. No. 67, 1985.