Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 2002 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 2002 No. 182 Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 4) 2002 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Amendment of s 143 (Designing, manufacturing or supplying a confined space) .......................................... 2 4 Amendment of s 144 (Modifying a confined space) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Amendment of s 145 (Using a confined space). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6 Amendment of sch 9 (Dictionary). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

s1 2 s5 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulation No. 182, 2002 (No. 4) 2002 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 2002 . 2 Regulation amended This regulation amends the WorkplaceHealthandSafetyRegulation 1997. 3 Amendment of s 143 (Designing, manufacturing or supplying a confined space) Section 143(1), ‘sections 7.1’ to ‘AS 2865.’— omit, insert — ‘sections 6.1 to 6.3 of AS/NZS 2865. 1 ’. 4 Amendment of s 144 (Modifying a confined space) Section 144(1), ‘section 7.3’ to ‘AS 2865.’— omit, insert— ‘section 6.4 of AS/NZS 2865. 2 ’. 5 Amendment of s 145 (Using a confined space) (1) Section 145(1)— omit, insert— ‘ (1) An employer or self-employed person at a workplace at which a confined space is used, or is to be used, must comply with the following sections of AS/NZS 2865— (a) section 8.1; 1 AS/NZS 2865:2001—Safe working in a confined space (Design manufacture, supply and modification) is published by, and may be purchased from Standards Australia. 2 AS/NZS 2865:2001—Safe working in a confined space (Design manufacture, supply and modification)

s6 3 s6 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulation No. 182, 2002 (No. 4) 2002 (b) sections 9.1 and 9.2; (c) sections 10.1, 10.5, 10.11, 10.22, 10.30, 10.41 and 10.46 to 10.48; (d) sections 11.1, 11.3, 11.6 and 11.9; (e) sections 12.1 and 12.2; (f) section 13. 3 Maximum penalty for subsection (1)(a), (b) or (f)—30 penalty units.’. (2) Section 145(2), ‘(g)’— omit, insert — ‘(e)’. 6 Amendment of sch 9 (Dictionary) Schedule 9, definition “confined space” — omit, insert— ‘ “confined space” means an enclosed or partially enclosed space that— (a) is at atmospheric pressure when anyone is in the space; and (b) is not intended or designed primarily as a workplace; and (c) could have restricted entry to, or exit from, the place; and (d) is, or is likely to be, entered by a person to work; and (e) at any time, contains, or is likely to contain, any of the following— (i) an atmosphere that has potentially harmful levels of a contaminant; (ii) an atmosphere that does not have a safe oxygen level; (iii) anything that could cause engulfment. Examples of a confined space — 3 AS/NZS 2865:2001—Safe working in a confined space—section 8.1 (Hazard identification), sections 9.1 and 9.2 (Risk assessment), section 10.1, 10.5, 10.11, 10.22, 10.30, 10.41 and 10.46 to 10.48 (Control measures), sections 11.1, 11.3, 11.6 and 11.9 (Training and competence), sections 12.1 and 12.2 (Emergency response), and section 13 (Record keeping)

s6 4 s6 Workplace Health and Safety Amendment Regulation No. 182, 2002 (No. 4) 2002 1. Storage tanks, tank cars, process vessels, pressure vessels, boilers, silos and other tank-like compartments. 2. Pits and degreasers. 3. Pipes, sewers, sewer pump stations including wet or dry wells, shafts and ducts. 4. Shipboard spaces entered through small hatchways or access points, cargo tanks, cellular double bottom tanks, duct keels, ballast or oil tanks and void spaces.’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 11 July 2002. 2. Notified in the gazette on 12 July 2002. 3. Laid in the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Industrial Relations. © State of Queensland 2002