Electrical Safety Regulation 2013

A person conducting a business or undertaking must not use, or allow to be used, a safety switch unless it complies with AS/NZS 3760 (In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment) when tested.

A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that each safety switch, other than a portable safety switch, at the workplace—

is tested by a competent person under AS/NZS 3760 immediately after it is connected; and

is tested under, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760.

A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that each portable safety switch at the workplace—

is tested by pushing the test button on the safety switch immediately after it is connected; and

is tested under, and at the intervals stated in, AS/NZS 3760.

If a safety switch is not working properly, the person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure—

a durable tag is immediately attached to the safety switch that warns people not to use the safety switch; and

the safety switch is immediately withdrawn from use.