PCBU duties – management or control of plant

The person must keep the record available for inspection under the Act.

The person must make the record available to any person to whom the person relinquishes control of the plant.

In subregulation (7) — scaffolding equipment means any component, assembly or machine used or intended to be used in the construction of a scaffold.

The person with management or control of plant with a presence-sensing safeguarding system at a workplace must keep a record of safety integrity tests, inspections, maintenance, commissioning, decommissioning, dismantling and alterations of the plant for the period set out in subregulation (2).

The record must be kept for — (a) 5 years unless paragraph (b) applies; or (b) the life of the plant or until the person relinquishes control of the plant if the plant is registered plant or has been altered.

The person with management or control of gas cylinders at a workplace that is a gas cylinder filling station must ensure that — (a) a gas cylinder is not filled with gas unless it bears a current inspection mark; and (b) a gas cylinder is only filled with gas for which that cylinder is designed.

In this regulation — AS/NZS 1576 Parts 1 to 6 means the following — (a) AS/NZS 1576.1:2019 (General requirements); (b) AS 1576.2:1991 (Couplers and accessories); (c) AS 1576.3:2015 (Prefabricated and tube-and-coupler scaffolding); (d) AS/NZS 1576.4:2013 (Suspended scaffolding); (e) AS/NZS 1576.5:1995 (Prefabricated splitheads and trestles); (f) AS 1576.6:2020 (Scaffolding Metal tube-and-coupler scaffolding — Deemed to conform…

This regulation applies in relation to — (a) a suspended scaffold; and (b) a cantilevered scaffold; and (c) a spur scaffold; and (d) a hung scaffold; and (e) any other scaffold from which a person or thing could fall more than 4 metres.