Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00407:body:0:p31
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00407
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Character Range: 81201–83964

conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace have a duty to manage electrical risks at the workplace while electrical work is being carried out, not just those carrying out the electrical work.
Electrical work will often be carried out at a place that is not under the management or control of the person conducting the business or undertaking carrying out the electrical work. For example, the place where work is carried out may be under the management or control of:
    * if the place is a permanent workplace—the person conducting a business or undertaking from that workplace
    * if the place is a public place—the relevant local or state authority.
These persons will also have duties in relation to the health and safety of the electrical worker(s) and other persons at the place where the electrical work is being carried out.
All duty holders must, so far as is reasonably practicable, consult, cooperate and coordinate activities with each other to ensure compliance with their work health and safety duties.
In addition to the general duty to consult, the person conducting a business or undertaking carrying out the electrical work must ensure the electrical work is only authorised (among other things) after consulting with the person with management or control of the workplace.
Consultation should ensure that all relevant persons are aware of any scheduled electrical work to be carried out and also any relevant risks to health and safety arising from that work.
Arrangements should also be put in place to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that all persons at the place receive suitable and adequate information and instruction, for example about the need to comply with warning or safety signs and stay out of any no go zones.

Residential premises
Occupiers of residential premises (as a person at a workplace) must take reasonable care that their acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health or safety of other persons, including that of electrical workers at their premises.

7.3              Carrying out energised electrical work

Regulation 161 A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that electrical work carried out on energised electrical equipment is carried out:
    * by a competent person who has tools, testing equipment and PPE that are suitable for the work, have been properly tested and are maintained in good working order
    * in accordance with a safe work method statement prepared for the work, and
    * subject to the exception explained below—with a safety observer present who is competent:
   - to implement the control measures in an emergency
   - to rescue the worker who is carrying out the work if necessary, and
   - has been assessed in the previous 12 months