Plant and equipment design registration or alteration
Apply for plant or equipment design registration, alteration to plant design registration or a certificate of interstate recognition for amusement structures.
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Overview
You can apply for the following registrations.
- Plant or equipment design
- Alteration to plant or equipment design
- Certificate of interstate recognition for amusement structures
Registration of plant or equipment design do not expire.
Plant and equipment requiring design registration
You must register the design of certain plant and equipment with WorkSafe Victoria before using them in the workplace.
If a registered design is altered to the extent it requires new measures to control risk, you must register the altered design with WorkSafe.
Visit the following page for a list of plant and equipment designs that need to be registered.
Apply for plant or equipment design registration or alteration
To register plant design or alterations to plant design, you’ll need the following.
- Plant designer details.
- Design technical standards details.
- Completed design verification declaration or statement.
- General arrangement or representational drawings.
- A credit/debit card or PayPal account to pay the fee.
Note, you can register alterations only for registered plant design.
- Design verification
The design verification declaration or statement must be completed by a design verifier.
The design verifier must:
- have the appropriate skills and knowledge, gained through relevant qualifications or experience, to verify the plant design
- not have participated in the plant’s design.
Learn more about design verifiers in the Compliance Code for Plant.
WorkSafe Victoria needs verification that the plant or equipment design is safe and was produced in line with the published technical standards or engineering principles specified by the designer.
For plant or equipment
Complete the ‘Design verification declaration’ for all types of plant or equipment that need design registration, excluding plant designs of amusement structures designed before 1 July 1995.
Design verification declaration
For amusement structures designed before 1 July 1995
Complete the ‘Design verification statement’ for plant designs of amusement structures designed before 1 July 1995.
Design verification statement (for amusement structures designed before 1 July 1995)
- Plant or equipment design registered interstate
Design registrations issued by an interstate health and safety regulator are recognised in Victoria.
You don’t need to re-register the plant design or give notice of prescribed equipment design to WorkSafe Victoria.
However, if an amusement structure listed in Schedule 2 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 is registered interstate, you’ll need to apply for a certificate of interstate recognition with WorkSafe Victoria.
Apply for interstate recognition for amusement structures
If the plant design for an amusement structure is registered by an interstate health and safety regulator, then you’ll need to apply for a certificate of interstate recognition with WorkSafe Victoria.
To apply for a certificate of interstate recognition, you’ll need the following.
- Interstate plant design registration details, including the original plant design verifier’s details.
- A copy of the interstate plant design registration or altered plant design registration from the issuing interstate workplace health and safety authority. This includes any conditions on the registration.
- Technical details of the amusement structure.
Note, if an amusement structure plant design registered interstate is altered to the extent it requires new control measures, you’ll need to apply for a certificate of interstate recognition for the altered design.
- When to notify WorkSafe
If you have plant design for an amusement structure registered interstate and recognised by WorkSafe Victoria, you should notify WorkSafe within 30 days if any of the following happens.
- Change in registration number by the issuing authority.
- A new design verification has been completed.
- Change in registration issue date by the issuing authority.
To notify WorkSafe, call our Licensing Branch on 1300 852 562 or email [email protected].
Fees
Fees for a registration of plant design and notice of prescribed equipment design are based on fee units and subject to change each financial year on 1 July.
Registration or notification is valid for the lifetime of the plant/ prescribed equipment unless design alterations are made.
Fee summary
$345.40
Registration fee.
$345.40
Alteration fee.
Licence types and fees
Plant maintenance
Employers must provide and maintain plant or systems of work that are, as far as reasonably practicable, safe and without risk to health.
Employers and self-employed persons must also maintain records of any inspection and maintenance carried out on certain categories of plant for as long as they manage that plant.
Contact WorkSafe's Licensing Branch
If you need help with your application, contact WorkSafe’s Licensing Branch.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 1300 852 562
Available 8:30 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday.
Licensing Branch
PO Box 279
Geelong Vic 3220
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