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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 289

Meaning of construction work—ch 6

In this chapter:

"construction work"—

        (a)     means any work carried out in connection with the construction, alteration, conversion, fitting-out, commissioning, renovation, repair, maintenance, refurbishment, demolition, decommissioning or dismantling of a structure; and

        (b)     includes the following:

              (i)     any installation or testing carried out in connection with an activity mentioned in paragraph (a);

              (ii)     the removal from the workplace of any product or waste resulting from demolition;

              (iii)     the prefabrication or testing of elements, at a place specifically established for the construction work, for use in construction work;

              (iv)     the assembly of prefabricated elements to form a structure, or the disassembly of prefabricated elements forming part of a structure;

              (v)     the installation, testing or maintenance of an essential service in relation to a structure;

              (vi)     any work connected with an excavation;

              (vii)     any work connected with any preparatory work or site preparation (including landscaping as part of site preparation) carried out in connection with an activity mentioned in paragraph (a);

              (viii)     an activity mentioned in paragraph (a), that is carried out on, under or near water, including work on buoys and obstructions to navigation; but

        (c)     does not include any of the following:

              (i)     the manufacture of plant;

              (ii)     the prefabrication of elements, other than at a place specifically established for the construction work, for use in construction work;

              (iii)     the construction or assembly of a structure that once constructed or assembled is intended to be transported to another place;

              (iv)     testing, maintenance or repair work of a minor nature carried out in connection with a structure;

              (v)     mining or the exploration for or extraction of minerals.



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