Plant Safety (Controlling the Hazards)
Course Overview
Each state has now passed legislation that is based on the format of model regulations in the National Standard for Plant. This standard makes it the duty of designers, manufacturers, importers, suppliers, installers, employers, owners and self employed persons to determine hazardous plant and operations of plant, and take the necessary steps to control the hazards.
Plant must be designed and constructed safely, and must be tested and examined to ensure that this is the case. Adequate information must be provided about plant when it is supplied to the workplace.
Employers have a duty to undertake hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control measures for plant and the systems of work associated with the plant. This may be anything from a basic to a more complex procedure, depending on the plant that is being assessed. Essentially, the regulations require that, where an employer has identified risk in relation to plant and its associated systems of work, the employer must take all reasonably practicable steps to eliminate that risk. If elimination of risk cannot be achieved, then the employer must minimise the risk.
This package will provide the learner with an overview of plant and many of the different types of plant and their hazards. It will address the risk assessment process that is required by legislation in Australia, and various types of controls.
Key Content- Legislative framework.
- The risk assessment process.
- Types of plant hazards.
- Mobile plant.
- Installation and commissioning plant.
- Plant maintenance.
- Common machine guarding.
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this package, learners should be able to:- Identify plant.
- Describe the hazards associated with different types of plant.
- Perform a risk assessment of plant.
- Contribute to the control of hazards associated with plant.
- Discuss high-risk situations such as fire and explosion incidents and their likely causes.