Safety switches, including portable safety switches
118 Safety switches, including portable safety switches
A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must not use, or allow to be used, a safety switch unless it complies with AS/NZS 3760 when tested.
A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that each safety switch, other than a portable safety switch, at the workplace—
is tested by a competent person in accordance with AS/NZS 3760 immediately after it is connected; and
is tested in accordance with, 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 in accordance with, 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the safety switch is immediately withdrawn from use.
Note for subsections (1) to (4)—
ES Act—section 30 (see section 8)
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