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Schedule 6 - Plant licensing, registration & notification

Schedule 6 of the Occupational Health and Safety (Safety Standards) Regulations 1994 lists plant requiring design registration and plant requiring a licence.

Part 1 Plant requiring registration or notification of design

Item

Description of plant
1 Pressure equipment, other than pressure piping, that has a hazard level of A, B, C or D, determined in accordance with AS  4343-1999 ‘Pressure equipment – Hazard levels’ and specifically covered by the standard mentioned in item 1 of Schedule 5
2 Gas cylinders covered by the standards mentioned in item 4 of Schedule 5
3 Tower cranes1
4 Building maintenance units
5 Hoists, with a platform movement in excess of 2.4 metres, designed to lift people1
6 Work boxes suspended from cranes
7 Amusement structures covered by the standard mentioned in item 6 of Schedule 5, other than class 1 structures
8 Prefabricated scaffolding
9 Boom-type elevating work platforms

10

 Gantry crane1:
a) with a safe working load greater than 5 tonnes; or 
b) designed to handle molten metal or dangerous good2

11

 Bridge cranes1:
(a) with a safe working load of greater than 10 tonnes; or
(b) designed to handle molten metal or dangerous goods2.
12 Vehicle hoists1
13 Mast climbing work platforms1
14 Mobile cranes with a safe working load greater than 10 tonnes1

 

Part 2 Plant requiring a licence

Item

Description of plant
1 Boilers:
(a) that have a hazard level of A, B or C determined in accordance with AS 4343-1999 ‘Pressure equipment – Hazard levels’; and
(b) are specifically covered by the standard mentioned in item 1 of Schedule 5

2

Pressure vessels:
(a) that have a hazard level of A, B or C, determined in accordance with AS 4343-1999 ‘Pressure equipment – Hazard levels’; and
(b) are specifically covered by the standard mentioned in item 1 of Schedule 5, other than:
(i) gas cylinders mentioned in the standard mentioned in item 4 of Schedule 5; and
(ii) LP gas fuel vessels for automotive use mentioned in AS/NZS 3509:2003 ‘LP gas fuel vessels for automotive use’; and
(iii) serially produced pressure vessels mentioned in AS 2971:2002 ‘Serially Produced Pressure Vessels’
3 Tower cranes1
4 Building maintenance units

5

 Amusement structures covered by the standard mentioned in item 6 of Schedule 5, other than class 1 structures
6 Truck-mounted concrete placing units with booms1

7

Mobile cranes with a safe working load greater than 10 tonnes1


Note 1 - For the purposes of licensing, cranes and hoists in Schedule 6 exclude those that are manually powered, elevating work platforms or tow trucks.

Note 2 - Dangerous goods means dangerous goods as defined in the ADG Code.