Occupational Safety and Health Amendment Regulations 1998 (WA)

6 February 1998]	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	665
WORKSAFE
WS301*

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1984

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1998

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health Amendment

Regulations 1998.

Regulation 3.60 amended

2. Regulation 3.60 of the Occupational Safety and Health Regulations 1996* is amended—

(a) after subregulation (3) (a) by deleting “and”;

(b) by deleting subregulation (3) (b) and substituting the following subregulations— “

(b)

must provide, where electricity is supplied to portable equipment through a fixed socket at the workplace after 31 March 1998, protec- tion against earth leakage current by means of—

(i)	a non-portable residual current device installed at the switchboard; or
(ii)	by a non-portable residual current device built into a fixed socket which, having regard to the primary use of the socket and its loca- tion, is likely to be used by a person operating portable equip- ment; and

(c)

must ensure where a non-portable residual current device has been—

(i)	installed at a switchboard, that a notice is displayed in a promi- nent place at or near the switchboard indicating that a non-port- able residual current device has been installed at the switchboard; or
(ii)	built into a fixed socket, that the socket can be identified as pro- viding protection against earth leakage current.

”;

and

(c) in subregulation (4) (b), by deleting “where compliance with subregulation (3) (b) is not practicable—” and substituting the following—

“

where the employer or a self-employed person is not satisfied that protec- tion against earth leakage current has been provided by means of a non- portable residual current device—

”.

[*	Published in Gazette 27 September 1996, pp. 4837-5080.
For amendments to 6 January 1998 see 1996 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 199, and Gazette 10 June and 12 September 1997.]

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.

NOTE: A consolidated version of regulation 3.60 as amended by the Occupational Safety and Health Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 1997 published in Government Gazette No. 155 of 1997 (pages 5176-5178) and the above Occupational Safety and Health Amendment Regulations 1998 is available from WorkSafe Western Australia, 3rd Floor, 1260 Hay Street, West Perth (telephone [phone]) and SafetyLine on the Internet ( safetyline/regs/reg_360.htm).