Your health and safety guide to licensing and registration

What it contains

You must be licensed to perform any of the following types of work:

• high-risk work (eg scaffolding, rigging, operating cranes and forklifts, using boilers and other pressure equipment)
• removing specific types and amounts of asbestos
• operating a major hazard facility
• using scheduled carcinogens
• transporting dangerous goods
• using dangerous goods that pose a security concern (high consequence dangerous goods)
• transporting, storing, selling, manufacturing or importing explosives or fireworks
• using explosives or discharging fireworks.

This guide will help you understand when you need a licence and what you need to do to get one.