Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 306P

306P Erecting scaffolding

(1) This section applies if a person conducting a business or undertaking intends to perform construction work that is the erecting of scaffolding.

(2) The person must not erect, or allow another person to erect, the scaffolding if—

(a) the erection of the scaffolding is housing construction work and a person could fall at least 3m in erecting the scaffolding; or

(b) the erection of the scaffolding is not housing construction work and a person could fall at least 2m in erecting the scaffolding.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(3) However, subsection (2) does not apply if—

(a) the person erecting the scaffolding—

(i) is prevented from falling from the scaffolding by a control measure; or

(ii) is using a fall arrest harness system; or

(b) subsection (4) is complied with.

(4) This subsection is complied with if—

(a) each of the following things is installed immediately after enough components of the scaffolding have been erected to support the thing—

(i) a platform at least 450mm wide along the full length of the section of scaffolding, designed to support the platform, at the level the scaffolding has reached;

(ii) edge protection across the space between the uprights forming the outer frame of the scaffolding at the level the scaffolding has reached;

(iii) a means of access to the level the scaffolding has reached; and

Example of a means of access—

temporary stairs or a ladder

(b) before the next level of the scaffolding is erected, a platform is installed below the level at a distance of not more than—

(i) if the erection of the scaffolding is housing construction work—3m; or

(ii) otherwise—2m.

(5) A platform under subsection (4) (b) must cover the full length and width of the section of scaffolding designed to support the platform at the level at which it is installed, other than a part of the section required to raise planks or other components of the scaffolding between levels.

(6) Subsection (4) —

(a) does not require a platform to be installed on the bottom level of the scaffolding; and

(b) does not stop the person removing a platform after the person has started work 2 levels above the level from which the platform is to be removed.