Victorian Repealed Regulations Victorian Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
Definitions
6. Definitions
In these Regulations-
"Authority" means the Victorian WorkCover Authority established under
section 18 of the Accident Compensation Act 1985;
"boiler" means a vessel, or an arrangement of vessels, and interconnecting
parts in which steam or other vapour is generated, or water or another liquid
is heated at a pressure above that of the atmosphere by the application of
fire, the products of combustion or similar means (other than electrical
power), and includes any boiler setting and directly associated equipment and
all valves, gauges, fittings and controls up to, and including, the first
connection point after the first valve or valve assembly, but does not
include-
(a) a fully flooded or pressurised system where water or other liquid is
heated to a temperature lower than the normal atmospheric boiling
temperature of the liquid; or
(b) any vessel where the design of the vessel enables the vessel to
operate deprived of all liquid or vapour that is intended to be
heated, without affecting the structure or operation of the vessel; or
(c) a direct-fired process heater;
"boom-type elevating work platform" means a powered telescoping device, hinged
device or articulated device or any combination of these used to support a
platform on which personnel, equipment and materials may be elevated to
perform work and which has a boom length of 11 metres or more;
"bridge crane" means a powered crane that consists of one or more bridge beams
mounted at each end to an end carriage that is capable of travelling along
elevated runways and that has one or more hoisting mechanisms that are able to
travel across the bridge beam or beams, but does not include a crane that has
3 or fewer powered operations and that is controlled from a location remote to
a permanent cabin or control station on the crane;
"certificate assessor" means a person who is authorised by the Authority under
regulation 23 to assess whether a person is competent to hold a
certificate of competency or a person authorised by another
statutory authority to carry out equivalent assessments;
"certificate of competency" means a certificate listed in Schedule 1 issued by
the Authority;
"competency standard" means-
(a) a competency standard contained in Schedule A, B or C to the National
Occupational Health and Safety Certification Standard for Users and
Operators of Industrial Equipment as published by the National
Occupational Health and Safety Commission and amended from time to
time; and
(b) in respect of fork-lift truck and order-picking fork-lift truck
operation, a competency standard for loadshifting equipment as
contained in the National Guidelines for Occupational Health and
Safety Competency Standards for the Operation of Loadshifting
Equipment and Other Types of Specified Equipment as published by the
National Occupational Health and Safety Commission and amended from
time to time; and
(c) in respect of winder operation, a competency standard for winder
operations published by the Authority and amended from time to time;
"concrete placing boom" means a powered mobile truck-mounted plant
incorporating a knuckle boom that is capable of power-operated slewing and
luffing to place concrete by way of pumping through a pipeline attached to, or
forming part of, the boom of the plant;
"crane" means an appliance intended for raising and lowering a load and moving
it horizontally but does not include industrial lift-trucks, earthmoving
machinery, amusement structures, tractors, industrial robots or lifts;
"derrick crane" means a powered slewing strut-boom crane with its boom pivoted
at the base of a mast which is either guyed or held by backstays and which is
capable of luffing under load;
"direct-fired process heater" means an arrangement of tubes comprising one or
more coils located in the radiant zone or convection zone or both of a
combustion chamber, whose prime purpose is to raise the temperature of a
process fluid which is circulated through the coils, to allow distillation or
fractionation or reaction or other petrochemical process of that process
fluid, which may be entirely liquid, entirely gas or in a phase between liquid
and gas;
"dogging" means the application of slinging techniques, including the
selection or inspection of lifting gear, or the directing of a crane or hoist
operator in the movement of a load when the load is out of the operator's
view;
"forest produce" has the same meaning as contained in section 3 of the
Forests Act 1958 where used in reference to, or in connection with, or as to
anything in, any reserved forest9;
"forestry operations" means those operations directly associated with removing
forest produce from any forest;
"fork-lift truck" means a powered industrial truck equipped with a mast and an
elevating load carriage to which is attached a pair of forkarms or other
loadholding attachment, including a truck on which the operator is raised with
the attachment for order-picking, but does not include a pedestrian operated
industrial truck;
"gantry crane" means a powered crane consisting of one or more bridge beams
supported at each end by legs mounted on end carriages and that is capable of
travelling on supporting surfaces or deck levels, whether fixed or not, and
that has a crab with one or more hoisting units that are able to travel across
the bridge beam or beams, but does not include a crane that has 3 or fewer
powered operations and that is controlled from a location remote to a
permanent cabin or control station on the crane;
"hoist" means an appliance intended for raising or lowering a load or
personnel and includes a mast climbing work platform, a
personnel and materials hoist, a slip form or jump form, but does not include
a lift;
"materials platform hoist" means a powered builder's hoist by which only goods
or materials and not personnel may be hoisted and where the car, bucket or
platform is cantilevered from, and travels up and down externally to, a face
of the support structure;
"mechanical loadshifting equipment" includes cranes, hoists, cableways, flying
foxes, winches, blocks and purchases which incorporate sheaves, jacks and air
bags;
"mine" means-
(a) a workplace at which work is being done under a mining licence granted
under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1990; or
(b) a workplace at which exploration, within the meaning of the Mineral
Resources Development Act 1990, in the form of-
(i) underground work of any kind; or
(ii) drilling from the surface for coal-bed methane- is being done under an
exploration licence granted under the Mineral Resources Development
Act 1990; or
(c) in relation to a tourist mine within the meaning of the Mineral
Resources Development Act 1990, those parts of the mine that are
underground and all infrastructure and plant associated with the
underground workings;
"non-slewing mobile crane" means a powered mobile crane with a capacity of
more than 3 tonnes and which incorporates a boom or jib that is not capable of
being slewed, including an articulated type mobile crane and a locomotive
crane, but does not include a crane engaged in vehicle tow truck operations;
"order-picking fork-lift truck" means a powered industrial truck of the type
where the operator's control arrangement is incorporated with the load
carriage or lifting media, and elevates with it;
"personnel and materials hoist" means a powered builder's hoist by which
personnel, goods or materials may be hoisted, and which comprises a car,
structure, machinery or other equipment associated with the hoist, and which
may be either a cantilever hoist, a tower hoist or a multiple winch operation;
"portal boom crane" means a powered jib or boom crane mounted on a portal
frame that is supported on runways along which the crane may travel;
"pressure equipment" means a boiler, a turbine or a
reciprocating steam engine;
"primary production" means enterprises whose business is that of producing
crops, plants or fruit or of maintaining or rearing animals for the purpose of
selling them or their bodily produce;
"reciprocating steam engine" means any steam plant where the steam acts upon a
piston under pressure where this action of the steam causes the piston to
move, but does not include an expanding (steam) reciprocating engine with any
piston diameter of 250 millimetres or less;
"rigging" means the use of mechanical loadshifting equipment and associated
gear to move, place or secure a load including plant, equipment or members of
a building or structure and to ensure the stability of those members and for
the setting up and dismantling of cranes and hoists, but does not include the
setting up of a crane or hoist which only requires the positioning of integral
outriggers or stabilisers;
"scaffolding" means the erection, alteration or dismantling of a temporary
structure, specifically erected to support platforms, where the structure is
such that a person or object could fall more than 4 metres from the structure;
"shaft conveyance" means a cage, skip, kibble or other contrivance in or on
which persons ride up or down a shaft, but does not include any attachments to
that cage, skip, kibble or other contrivance;
"slewing mobile crane" means a powered mobile crane incorporating a boom or
jib that is capable of being slewed, but does not include a front-end loader,
a backhoe, an excavator or similar equipment when configured for crane
operation;
"slinging techniques" in relation to dogging means those slinging techniques
that require judgement to be exercised in relation to the suitability and
condition of lifting gear, and the method of slinging, by consideration of the
nature of the load, its mass and its centre of gravity;
"statutory authority" means a person or body that has the power under the law
of the Commonwealth of Australia or the law of an Australian State or
Territory to issue certificates equivalent to the certificates of competency
listed in Schedule 1;
"tower crane" means a powered jib or boom crane mounted on a tower structure
that is demountable or permanent, and includes both horizontal and luffing jib
types;
"turbine" means any plant where steam acts on a turbine or rotor to cause a
rotary motion, but does not include steam turbines and expansion turbines with
a power output of less than 500 kW;
"vehicle loading crane" means a powered slewing crane mounted on a vehicle for
the principal purpose of loading and unloading the vehicle and that has a
capacity of 10 metre tonnes or more;
"winder" means an electrical or compressed air or hydraulic or other power
driven unit, single or multi-drum, which by use of ropes, sheave wheels and a
shaft conveyance, is used to raise or lower persons or materials from level to
level and includes a friction winder. _______________