You can use this compliance code as a practical guide for how to meet your occupational health and safety duties or obligations in relation to work involving plant. Plant is a broad term that covers:
- machinery
- equipment
- appliances
- amusement structures
- lifts
- scaffolds
- turbines
- temporary access equipment
- implements and tools.
Most businesses involve using a type of plant. This code provides guidance as to how to protect people who use plant and what activities might pose a risk.
Meeting the requirements of a compliance code means that you have fulfilled your occupational health and safety duties and obligations in relation to the matters covered by the compliance code. Using plant in the workplace: employers must ensure that plant is inspected to the extent necessary to ensure that any risks associated with the use of the plant is monitored.
