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Provides practical guidance for those who have duties or obligations in relation to confined spaces under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OHS Act) and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (OHS Regulations).
The main purpose of this Act is to provide for public safety in relation to prescribed equipment and equipment sites. (VIC legislation.)
An Act to consolidate the Law relating to Compensation to Workers for Injuries arising out of or in the Course of their Employment. (VIC legislation.)
The main purposes of this Act are: (a) to create a legislative framework to give effect to the objects of this Act; and (b) to repeal the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1985; and (c) to provide for matters of a transitional nature and make consequential amendments. (VIC legislation.)
Specifies requirements for alarm systems for all types of passenger and goods passenger lifts; deals with the minimum information to be provided as part of the instruction manual related to maintenance and the rescue service.
Sets out minimum requirements for the design, construction, installation and commissioning of mechanical smoke control systems in buildings; specific methods of smoke control are defined and the appropriate requirements specified for each.
Specifies safe working provisions and practices for those responsible for, and involved in, new lift installations in new liftwells.
Sets out requirements for the materials, design and installation of corrugated fibre-reinforced cement roof and wall cladding; provides test procedures for the determination of resistance to wind force; appendix gives advice on the provision of roof ventilation.
Sets out means of classifying pedestrian surface materials according to their frictional characteristics.