Compliance Code Plant - Victoria

You can use this compliance code as a practical guide for how to meet your occupational health and safety duties or obligations in relation to work involving plant. Plant is a broad term that covers:

• machinery
• equipment
• appliances
• amusement structures
• lifts
• scaffolds
• turbines
• temporary access equipment
• implements and tools.

Most businesses involve using a type of plant. This code provides guidance as to how to protect people who use plant and what activities might pose a risk.

Meeting the requirements of a compliance code means that you have fulfilled your occupational health and safety duties and obligations in relation to the matters covered by the compliance code. Using plant in the workplace: employers must ensure that plant is inspected to the extent necessary to ensure that any risks associated with the use of the plant is monitored.