Plant and equipment requiring design registration

Plant and equipment requiring design registration

Plant requiring registration of design is listed in Schedule 2 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (OHS Regulations). Prescribed equipment requiring notice of design is listed in Schedule 1 of the Equipment (Public Safety) Regulations 2017.

It includes the following.

• Pressure equipment, other than exceptions stated in the OHS Regulations.
• Tower cranes, other than the foundations or supporting structure and the crane ties of the tower crane.
• Self-erecting tower cranes.
• Lifts, escalators and moving walks, other than exceptions stated in the OHS Regulations.
• Building maintenance units.
• Hoists, with a platform movement of more than 2.4 metres, designed to lift persons.
• Work boxes, suspended from cranes.
• Amusement structures, to which AS 3533.1 – Amusement rides and devices – Part 1: Design and construction applies, other than the exceptions stated in the OHS Regulations.
• Prefabricated scaffolding, being an integrated system of prefabricated components manufactured in such a way that the possible geometry of assembled scaffolds is predetermined by the designer.
• Boom-type elevating work platforms.
• Gantry cranes, with a rated capacity greater than 5 tonnes or bridge cranes with a rated capacity greater than 10 tonnes, and a gantry crane or bridge crane that is designed to handle molten metal or dangerous goods.
• Vehicle hoists.
• Mast climbing work platforms.
• Mobile cranes with a rated capacity greater than 10 tonnes, other than reach stackers.
• Chairlifts.
• Concrete-placing booms.

Full list of plant and equipment

Plant

For a full list of plant requiring registration of design, refer to Schedule 2 of the OHS Regulations.

Equipment

For a full list of prescribed equipment requiring notice of design, refer to Schedule 1 of the Equipment (Public Safety) Regulations 2017 (EPS Regulations). Certain prescribed equipment have further requirements under the EPS Regulations, in addition to the OHS Regulations.

Before a prescribed equipment can be used at a site, the design must be confirmed by WorkSafe.

You don’t need to give notice of a prescribed equipment design if the design has been registered under the OHS Regulations.

Apply for a plant or equipment design registration

Visit our ‘Plant and equipment design registration or alteration’ page to apply for the following registrations.

• Plant or equipment design
• Alteration to plant design
• Certificate of interstate recognition for amusement structures