Victorian Numbered Regulations

EQUIPMENT (PUBLIC SAFETY) REGULATIONS 2017 (SR NO 23 OF 2017) - REG 12

    (1)     A designer of prescribed equipment must ensure that the prescribed equipment is designed so that the risk to the operators of the prescribed equipment and persons in the vicinity of the prescribed equipment when the prescribed equipment is used—

        (a)     is eliminated, so far as is practicable; or

        (b)     if it is not practicable to eliminate the risk, is reduced so far as is practicable.

Penalty:     60 penalty units for a natural person;

300 penalty units for a body corporate.

    (2)     A designer of prescribed equipment must ensure that     if particular systems of work or the competency of operators will eliminate or reduce risk, they are specified in the information supplied to the manufacturer under regulation 17.

Penalty:     60 penalty units for a natural person;

300 penalty units for a body corporate.