AS 2294 Earth-moving Machinery - Western Australia

Description

You will need to comply with this standard if you are an employer, main contractor, self-employed person, person in control of a workplace or person who controls access to the workplace and powered mobile plant at a workplace is fitted with a roll-over protective structure or a falling object protective structure. Powered mobile plant includes tractors, mobile cranes and industrial lift trucks.

This standard specifies the requirements for roll-over protective structures and falling-object protective structures for earth-moving machinery, and comprises:

  • AS 2294.1-1997 Earth-moving machinery - Protective structures - General
  • AS 2294.1 SUPP 1-2003 Earth-moving machinery - Protective structures - General - Operator protective structures fitted to plant used in timber industry (forest operations)
  • AS 2294.3-1997 Earth-moving machinery - Protective structures - Laboratory tests and performance requirements for falling-object protective structures
  • AS 2294.3-1997 Earth-moving machinery - Protective structures - Laboratory tests and performance requirements for falling-object protective structures.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Act(s) name

Work Health and Safety Act 2020 Western Australia

Regulation(s) name

Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 Western Australia

Administering agency

Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety

WorkSafe

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