Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 306Q

306Q Dismantling scaffolding

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

(2) The person conducting the business or undertaking must not dismantle, or allow another person to dismantle, the scaffolding if—

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

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

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

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

(a) the person dismantling the scaffolding is—

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

(ii) using a fall arrest harness system; or

(b) each of the following is complied with—

(i) any edge protection for the scaffolding and any means of access to the level that the dismantling has reached are kept in place while it is practicable to do so;

(ii) there is in place while it is practicable a platform at least 450mm wide at the level the dismantling has reached;

(iii) there is in place a platform at a level (the
"lower level" ) below the level the dismantling has reached at a distance of not more than—

(A) if the dismantling of the scaffolding is housing construction work—3m; or

(B) otherwise—2m.

(4) The platform required under subsection (3) (b) (iii) must cover the full length and width of the section of scaffolding designed to support the platform at the lower level, other than a part of the section required to lower planks or other components of the scaffolding between levels.