Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulation 1991 (No 4) (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 1991 No. 56 Department of Employment, Vocational Education, Training and Industrial Relations Brisbane, 15th August, 1991 HIS Excellency the Governor, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council and in pursuance of the Workplace Health and Safety Act1989 , has been pleased to make the following regulations. N. G. WARBURTON Minister for Employment Training and Industrial Relations WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1991 (NO. 4) Short title 1. These regulations may be cited as the Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations 1991 (No. 4) Commencement 2.(1) Subject to subregulation (2), these regulations commence on publication in the Gazette. (2) Regulation 7 commences on 1 February 1992. Amended regulations 3. The Workplace Health and Safety Regulations 1989 are amended as

2 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) set out in these regulations. No. 56, 1991 Amendment of reg. 5 (Interpretation) 4. Regulation 5— insert — ‘ “building work” means— (a) houses; (b) other residential buildings (blocks of flats, home units, attached townhouses, villa units, terrace houses, semi-detached houses, maisonettes); (c) hotels etc. (motels, hostels, boarding houses, guest houses, holiday apartment buildings); (d) shops (retail shops, restaurants, cafes, taverns, dry cleaners, laundromats, hair salons, shopping arcades); (e) factories (paper mills, brickworks, foundries, manufacturing laboratories, workshops as part of a manufacturing process); (f) offices (banks, post offices, council chambers, head and regional offices); (g) other business premises (warehouses, storage depots, service stations, transport depots and terminals, electricity sub-station buildings, pumping station buildings, telephone exchanges, mail sorting centres, broadcasting stations, film studios); (h) educational buildings (schools, colleges, kindergartens, libraries, museums, art galleries, research and teaching laboratories, theological colleges); (i) religious buildings (churches, chapels, temples); (j) health buildings (hospitals, nursing homes, surgeries, clinics, medical centres); (k) entertainment and recreational buildings (clubs, theatres, cinemas, public halls, gymnasiums, grandstands, squash courts, sports and recreation centres);

3 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (l) miscellaneous buildings (law courts, homes for the aged where medical care is not provided as a normal service, orphanages, gaols, barracks, mine buildings, glasshouses, livestock sheds, shearing sheds, fruit and skin drying sheds, public toilets, ambulance, fire and police stations); ‘ “construction other than building work” means— (a) roads and highways (parking areas, cycle paths, airport runways, pedestrian and vehicle overpasses, traffic lights, roundabouts, associated road drainage works, street and highway lighting, road re-surfacing, kerbing and guttering, road tunnels); (b) railways (tracklaying, overhead power lines and signals, tramways, tunnels for underground railway, fuel hoppers); (c) harbours (boat and yacht basins, breakwaters, retaining walls, docks and piers, terminals, wharves, dredging works, marinas); (d) water storage and supply (dams, weirs, reservoirs, embankments for water diversion, water pipelines, mains and treatment plants, flood prevention and erosion, aqueducts, water conduits, systems conveying water to residences, commercial and industrial establishments); (e) sewage and drainage (sanitary and storm sewers, sewage treatment plants, stormwater drains, drainage systems); (f) electricity generation, transmission and distribution (power stations, hydroelectric generating plants, associated work i.e. towers, chimneys, transmission and distribution lines); (g) recreation grounds (golf courses, playing fields, racecourses, swimming pools, landscaping, park construction); (h) telecommunications (radio, television, microwave and radar transmission towers, telephone and telegraph lines and underground cables, coaxial cable); (i) heavy industy (oil, gas, coal and other minerals—construction of production, storage and distribution facilities, refineries, pumping stations, construction of mines); (j) ships or boats;

4 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (k) bridges (those for the support of roads, railways, tramways, causeways and elevated highways); ‘ “fees” includes charges, allowances, costs and expenses; ‘ “final price at practical completion” means the aggregate of all sums paid or payable by the owner of the project to the principal contractor, and to all contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, so as to constitute the total cost of the project at practical completion; ’. Replacement of reg. 7 (Fees) 5. Regulation 7— omit, insert — ‘Fees ‘7.(1) The fees specified in the Second Schedule are the fees payable in respect of the matters specified in the Schedule. ‘(2) The fees may be paid to— (a) the Brisbane office of the Director; or (b) the office of an inspector. ’. Replacement of Second Schedule 6. Second Schedule— omit, insert— ‘SECOND SCHEDULE FEES ‘1. Notifiable projects When a notification is required to be given in accordance with the Act, an estimate of the final price at practical completion must be made and the fee payable is that calculated at the rate of—

5 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (a) in respect of a project comprising only construction other than building work—$1 00 per $1000 00, or part of $1000 00, of the estimated final price at practical completion; or (b) in respect of a project comprising building work only, or both building work and construction other than building work—$2 00 per $1000 00, or part of $1000 00, of the estimated final price at practical completion. On completion of the notifiable project, the final price at practical completion of the project must be determined, to the reasonable satisfaction of the Director, and the fees re-assessed in respect of fees paid or payable. If necessary, an adjustment must be made in respect of fees paid or payable. ‘2. Application for registration or renewal of registration of industrial workplaces If the main activity at the workplace is classified in the Fifth Schedule as— (a) Category 3, the fee is $25 00 plus $7 50; and (b) Category 4, the fee is $25 00 plus $12 50; per person in excess of 2 persons to be employed (including employers, self-employed persons and persons employed part-time or full-time) between 1 February of one year and 31 January of the following year. ‘3. Application for registration or renewal of registration of classified plant $ (a) Boilers with a heating surface that— (i) does not exceed 5 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00 (ii) exceeds 5 square metres but does not exceed 10 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 (iii) exceeds 10 square metres but does not exceed 60 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00

6 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (iv) exceeds 60 square metres but does not exceed 500 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.00 (v) exceeds 500 square metres but does not exceed 2 000 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00 (vi) exceeds 2 000 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850.00 If a boiler is heated electrically, the fee payable is to be calculated on the basis that one kilowatt equals 0.08 square metres of heating surface. (b) Unfired pressure vessels with a capacity that— (i) exceeds 0.5 cubic metres but does not exceed 5 cubic metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.00 (ii) exceeds 5 cubic metres but does not exceed 15 cubic metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.00 (iii) exceeds 15 cubic metres but does not exceed 30 cubic metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.00 (iv) exceeds 30 cubic metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.00 (c) Cranes and hoists (other than elevating work platforms, building maintenance units or vehicle hoists) with a safe working load that— (i) does not exceed 10 tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.00 (ii) exceeds 10 tonnes but does not exceed 50 tonnes 160.00 (iii) exceeds 50 tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 (d) Vehicle hoists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00 (e) Mobile elevating work platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00 (f) Building maintenance units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.00 (g) Industrial lift trucks with a capacity greater than 10 tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.00 (h) Monorail transporters or aerial funicular devices (other than amusement devices) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 plus $25.00 per vehicle attached

7 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 ‘4. Application for registration or renewal of registration of specified plant $ (a) Service lifts 30.00 (b) All other lifts 50.00 plus $13.00 per floor (c) Escalators and moving walks 40.00 (d) Air conditioning units 100.00 (e) Amusement devices that are classified in A.S. 3533—Amusement rides and devices, as— (i) Class 1 Amusement Devices 40.00 (ii) Class 2 Amusement Devices 80.00 (iii) Class 3 Amusement Devices 120.00 (iv) Class 4 Amusement Devices 160.00 ‘5. Application for registration of details of plant design (a) Water tube and fire tube boilers with a heating surface that— (i) does not exceed 100 square metres (ii) exceeds 100 square metres but does not exceed 2 000 square metres (iii) exceeds 2 000 square metres (b) Coil type forced circulation boilers (c) Electric element or electrode boilers (d) Unfired pressure vessels— (i) with a capacity that does not exceed 0.5 cubic metres $ 151.50 337.00 899.00 95.50 95.50 56.00

8 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (ii) with a capacity that exceeds 0.5 cubic metres but does not exceed 10 cubic metres 112.50 (iii) with a capacity that exceeds 10 cubic metres but does not exceed 50 cubic metres 224.50 (iv) with a capacity that exceeds 50 cubic metres but does not exceed 100 cubic metres 281.00 (v) with a capacity that exceeds 100 cubic metres 337.00 (vi) that is a tubular heat exchanger minimum fee of $135.00 (e) Gantry cranes 168.50 (f) Bridge cranes 168.50 (g) Monorails 112.50 (h) Crane runways 112.50 (i) Mobile cranes with a safe working load that— (i) does not exceed 20 tonnes 224.50 (ii) exceeds 20 tonnes 499.50 (j) Elevating work platforms 224.50 (k) Vehicle hoists 224.50 (l) Wall or pillar cranes 112.50 (m) Tower cranes 449.50 (n) Tower crane installations 112.50 (o) Building maintenance units 224.50 (p) Pressure piping 56.00 per 100 metres, or part of 100 metres, to a maximum of $449.50

9 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (q) Passenger and goods lifts Number of lifts in a bank of lifts 1-5 floors 6-20 floors Over 20 floors 1 $169.00 $224.50 $281.00 2 $213.50 $281.00 $354.00 3 $253.00 $337.00 $421.00 4 $297.50 $393.00 $494.50 5 $337.00 $449.50 $562.00 6 $382.00 $505.50 $629.00 (r) Escalators and moving walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (s) Service lifts with— (i) 1-5 floors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (ii) over 5 floors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (t) Stairway lifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (u) Private lifts for disabled persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (v) Any other plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or When the Director considers that the design is of an unusual or intricate kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (w) When the original design submitted for registration is amended an additional fee, being a proportion of the prescribed fee equivalent to the proportion of amendments made to the original design, is payable. $ 168.50 112.50 168.50 112.50 146.00 112.50 224.50 ‘6. Certificates of competency, permits or authorities to operate $ (a) Fees payable to the Director— (i) application for a certificate of competency or authority to operate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.00 (ii) examination for a certificate of competency other than that of a demolisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.50 (iii) assessment for an authority to operate . . . . . . . 22.50

10 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (iv) practical examination for each additional endorsement on a certificate of competency undertaken consecutively on the same day . . . (v) application for a permit to engage as a learner . (vi) application for a fresh certificate of competency, permit or authority to operate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (vii) application for a certificate of competency in recognition of any other certificate or qualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (viii)examination for a certificate of competency as a demolisher— Class 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (b) Fees payable to an accredited officer— (i) examination for a certificate of competency . . . (ii) assessment for an authority to operate . . . . . . . (iii) practical examination for each additional endorsement on a certificate of competency undertaken consecutively on the same day . . . 11.00 17.00 17.00 17.00 95.50 67.00 67.00 56.00 67.00 67.00 22.50 22.50 11.00 ‘7. Courses and Lectures (a) Introduction to slinging for dogman or crane chaser (b) Dogman or crane chaser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (c) Explosive-powered tool operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (d) Rigger Class 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 33.50 79.00 79.00 224.50

11 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (e) Any other rigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168.50 (f) Scaffolder Class 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168.50 (g) Any other scaffolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.00 (h) Any other course or lecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.00 per hour plus travelling and accommodation costs if applicable ‘8. Reports, etc. (a) Inspection of either a report or of a copy of a report prepared by an inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (b) Copy of a report or of an extract of a report prepared by an inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (c) Perusal of data held in records controlled by the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (d) Copy of data held in records controlled by the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (e) Assessment of the manufacturing standards of imported L.P.G. cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (f) Witnessing of each weld procedure or each welder qualification test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (g) Lodging of a Notice of Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 56.00 90.00 56.00 90.00 90.00 56.00 22.50 ‘9. Application for approval of plans of workplaces (a) Floor area— (i) not exceeding 500 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . (ii) exceeding 500 square metres but not exceeding 2 000 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 45.00 123.50

12 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (iii) exceeding 2 000 square metres but not exceeding 5 000 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (iv) exceeding 5 000 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . (b) Structural alterations to a registered workplace . . . . (c) Tenancy layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.00 449.50 45.00 45.00 ’. Amendment of Second Schedule 7. Second Schedule— Items 2, 3 and 4— omit, insert — ‘2. Application for registration or renewal of registration of industrial workplaces If the main activity at the workplace is classified in the Fifth Schedule as— (a) Category 3, the fee is $26.00 plus $8.00; and (b) Category 4, the fee is $26.00 plus $13.00; per person in excess of 2 persons to be employed (including employers, self-employed persons and persons employed part-time or full-time) between 1 February of one year and 31 January of the following year. ‘3. Application for registration or renewal of registration of classified plant $ (a) Boilers with a heating surface that— (i) does not exceed 5 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . 42.00 (ii) exceeds 5 square metres but does not exceed 10 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.00 (iii) exceeds 10 square metres but does not exceed 60 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.00

13 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 (iv) exceeds 60 square metres but does not exceed 500 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305.00 (v) exceeds 500 square metres but does not exceed 2 000 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525.00 (vi) exceeds 2 000 square metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893.00 If a boiler is heated electrically, the fee payable is to be calculated on the basis that one kilowatt equals 0.08 square metres of heating surface. (b) Unfired pressure vessels with a capacity that— (i) exceeds 0.5 cubic metres but does not exceed 5 cubic metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.00 (ii) exceeds 5 cubic metres but does not exceed 15 cubic metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (iii) exceeds 15 cubic metres but does not exceed 30 cubic metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.00 121.00 (iv) exceeds 30 cubic metres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.00 (c) Cranes and hoists (other than elevating work platforms, building maintenance units or vehicle hoists) with a safe working load that— (i) does not exceed 10 tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.00 (ii) exceeds 10 tonnes but does not exceed 50 tonnes 168.00 (iii) exceeds 50 tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210.00 (d) Vehicle hoists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.00 (e) Mobile elevating work platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.00 (f) Building maintenance units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.00 (g) Industrial lift trucks with a capacity greater than 10 tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.00 (h) Monorail transporters or aerial funicular devices (other than amusement devices) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.00 plus $26.00 per vehicle attached

14 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 ‘4. Application for registration or renewal of registration of specified plant $ (a) Service lifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.00 (b) All other lifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.00 plus $14.00 per floor (c) Escalators and moving walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.00 (d) Air conditioning units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.00 (e) Amusement devices that are classified in A.S. 3533—Amusement rides and devices, as— (i) Class 1 Amusement Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.00 (ii) Class 2 Amusement Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.00 (iii) Class 3 Amusement Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.00 (iv) Class 4 Amusement Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168.00 ’.

15 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulations (No. 4) No. 56, 1991 ENDNOTES 1. Published in the Industrial Gazette on 17 August 1991. 2. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 3. The administering agency is the Department of Employment, Vocational Education, Training and Industrial Relations. The State of Queensland 1991