What plant needs design registration?
You must register certain types of plant design under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (the Regulation). You can read about who has obligations under the Regulation.
Design registration ensures that plant listed in Schedule 5 of the Regulation is designed and verified to appropriate technical standards prior to being supplied.
The designer or the person with management or control of the item of plant can apply to have a design registered.
Once the design is registered, any number of items can be supplied as long as it complies with the design that was registered. The registration holder must provide the design registration number with each item that is supplied.
Plant design registration and plant registration are authorisations under Part 4 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.
Part 1 of Schedule 5 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 requires certain plant designs to be registered.
You will need to ensure that plant design registration information is available when it is supplied if you are designing, manufacturing, supplying or using:
- passenger ropeways
- pressure equipment, other than pressure piping, and categorised as hazard level A, B, C or D according to the criteria in Section 2.1 of AS 4343 Pressure equipment—hazard levels
- gas cylinders covered by Part 1.1 of AS 2030.1 Gas cylinders—General Requirements
- tower cranes including self-erecting tower cranes
- lifts, including escalators and moving walkways
- building maintenance units
- hoists with a platform movement exceeding 2.4 metres, designed to lift people
- work boxes designed to be suspended from cranes
- amusement devices covered by Section 2.1 of AS 3533—Amusement Rides and Devices
- concrete placing booms
- prefabricated scaffolding
- boom-type elevating work platforms
- gantry cranes with a safe working load greater than 5 tonnes or bridge cranes with a safe working load of greater than 10 tonnes, and any gantry crane or bridge crane which is designed to handle molten metal or Schedule 11 hazardous chemicals
- vehicle hoists
- mast climbing work platforms
- mobile cranes with a rated capacity of greater than 10 tonnes
The definitions for the items of plant listed above can be found in schedule 19 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011. The design registration for concrete placing booms commenced on 1 January 2015 and only applies to units manufactured or imported on or after 1 January 2015.
Concrete placing booms
The transitional arrangement for registration of the design of concrete placing booms, mobile and fixed (also known as ‘satellite’ booms) commenced on 1 January 2015 (Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 section 779(a)) and only applies to units manufactured or imported on or after 1 January 2015. Concrete line pumps without booms do not require design registration.
Design registration of modified concrete placing booms is required even if the original unit was manufactured or imported on or before 31 December 2014.
Passenger ropeways
Design registration for passenger ropeways will commence on 1 January 2025. A passenger ropeway built after 1 January 2025 must have plant design registration.
After 1 January 2027, a passenger ropeway built before 1 January 2025 must comply with plant design registration requirements for alterations that may affect health or safety.