WHAT HAPPENS TO ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT THAT IS NOT USED IN A HOSTILE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT OR FOR CONSTRUCTION WORK?
Clause 64(1) of the OHS Regulation requires the employer to ensure that any risk of injury from electricity at a place of work is eliminated or, if elimination is not reasonably practicable, the risk is controlled. A risk assessment must be carried out on electrical equipment that does not fit into the above categories. After the risk assessment, you can then implement a range of control measures to manage the safe operation of electrical equipment that is used in the workplace, including: routine visual checks by the equipment user formal visual inspections maintenance repair replacement use of fixed or portable residual current devices (RCDs) more commonly known as safety switches training and instructing employees in the safe use of the electrical equipment and, if determined as an outcome of a risk assessment, inspection and testing of identified electrical equipment.
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