Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 216

216 Roll-over protection on tractors

(1) The person with management or control of a tractor at a workplace must ensure that the tractor is not used unless it is securely fitted with a roll-over protective structure.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(2) If a tractor is used in a place that is too low for the tractor to work while it is fitted with a roll-over protective structure, the structure may be lowered or removed for the period during which the tractor is used in such a situation (but only if other measures to minimise the risk of roll-over are in place).

(3) This section does not apply if the tractor is—

(a) installed in a fixed position, and in a manner which would no longer permit it to be used as powered mobile plant; or

(b) a tractor with a mass of less than 560kg or a mass of 15,000kg or more; or

(c) being used for a historical purpose or activity.

(4) In this section—

"historical purpose or activity" , in relation to the use of a tractor, includes an activity ancillary to a historical activity.

Example of a historical activity—

a historical display, parade, demonstration or re-enactment

Example of an activity ancillary to a historical activity—

restoring, maintaining, modifying or housing a tractor used, or to be used, for a historical activity.

"roll-over protective structure" means a structure designed to protect a tractor operator from injury if the tractor rolls over in any direction.

Note—

Sections 214 and 215 also apply to a tractor.