Registration of plant and plant designs

Certain types and items of plant must be registered with WorkSafe before they can be used at a workplace.

Plant designs and designs that have been altered to the point that new control measures are necessary must also be registered.

Registration applies to the following types of plant:

Plant requiring registration of design –

  • Pressure equipment, other than pressure piping
  • Tower cranes
  • Self-erecting tower cranes
  • Lifts
  • Building maintenance units
  • Hoists, with a platform movement in excess of 2.4 metres, designed to lift people
  • Work boxes suspended from cranes
  • Amusement structures to which AS 3533 – Amusement rides and devices applies, other than amusement structures referred to in the standard as class 1 structures
  • Prefabricated scaffolding, being an integrated system of prefabricated components manufactured in such a way that the possible geometry of assembled scaffolds is pre-determined by the designer
  • Boom-type elevating work platforms
  • Gantry cranes with a safe working load greater than 5 tonnes or bridge cranes with a safe working load greater than 10 tonnes, and a gantry crane or a bridge crane which is designed to handle molten metal or dangerous goods
  • Vehicle hoists, being hoists that are permanently installed or intended to be permanently installed in a workplace to elevate a vehicle to allow work to be performed on the vehicle
  • Mast climbing work platforms
  • Mobile cranes with safe a safe working load greater than 10 tonnes.

Items of plant requiring registration –