Registration of plant and plant designs

Certain types and items of plant must be registered with WorkSafe before they can be used at a workplace.

Plant designs and designs that have been altered to the point that new control measures are necessary must also be registered.

Registration applies to the following types of plant:

Plant requiring registration of design –

• Pressure equipment, other than pressure piping
• Tower cranes
• Self-erecting tower cranes
• Lifts
• Building maintenance units
• Hoists, with a platform movement in excess of 2.4 metres, designed to lift people
• Work boxes suspended from cranes
• Amusement structures to which AS 3533 – Amusement rides and devices applies, other than amusement structures referred to in the standard as class 1 structures
• Prefabricated scaffolding, being an integrated system of prefabricated components manufactured in such a way that the possible geometry of assembled scaffolds is pre-determined by the designer
• Boom-type elevating work platforms
• Gantry cranes with a safe working load greater than 5 tonnes or bridge cranes with a safe working load greater than 10 tonnes, and a gantry crane or a bridge crane which is designed to handle molten metal or dangerous goods
• Vehicle hoists, being hoists that are permanently installed or intended to be permanently installed in a workplace to elevate a vehicle to allow work to be performed on the vehicle
• Mast climbing work platforms
• Mobile cranes with safe a safe working load greater than 10 tonnes.

Items of plant requiring registration –

• Boilers categorised as hazard level A, B or C according to the criteria identified in AS 4343 Pressure equipment – Hazard levels
• Pressure vessels categorised as hazard level A, B or C according to the criteria identified in AS 4343 Pressure equipment – Hazard levels, other than –
  • Gas cylinders to which AS 2030 – Gas cylinders applies; and
  • Liquefied petroleum gas fuel vessels for automotive use to which AS 3509 – LP Gas fuel vessels for automotive use applies; and
  • Serially produced vessels to which AS 2971 – Serially produced pressure vessels applies
• Tower cranes
• Self-erecting tower cranes
• Lifts
• Building maintenance units
• Amusement structures to which AS 3533 – Amusement rides and devices applies, other than amusement structures referred to in the standard as class 1 structures
• Concrete placing units (truck mounted with boom)