New regulations for cable cars, gondola rides and amusement device logbooks

New safety regulations for passenger ropeways and amusement devices came into effect on 1 January 2025. These changes require enhanced safety measures for cable cars and gondola rides, along with stricter requirements for maintaining and transferring amusement device logbooks.

Passenger ropeways

Passenger ropeways, also known as cable cars or gondola rides, are generally used for transport over difficult terrain including mountains.

New requirements under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 will require owners to ensure the safe operation, maintenance, inspection and testing of their ropeways.

Design registration, issued by the Work Health and Safety regulator, will be required for any passenger ropeway built in the future.

The new regulations give effect to requirements in the national model, Work Health and Safety Regulation, which has been adopted in other states and territories.

For more information visit What plant needs design registration?

Amusement device logbooks

Changes to the Work Health and Safety Regulation will also require owners of amusement devices to make logbooks available to the new owner when selling a device.

This will allow new owners to be properly informed about the history of the device and ensure inspection, maintenance, testing and repairs are carried out as required.

To protect privacy, before providing the logbook to a new device owner, all reasonable steps must be taken to remove any identifying information about the people who previously operated the device (e.g. a worker’s photograph or record of their training or qualification must be removed). However, the logbook must still keep a record of names or signatures where this confirms safety checks have been carried out.

This regulation amendment gives effect to the logbook requirement in the national model Work Health and Safety Regulation.

More information

For further information visit Amusement device regulation.