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and co-ordination.

1.5 Registering plant
Certain items of plant and types of plant designs must be registered. A list of registrable plant is provided at Appendix A.

Registrable plant must be:

    * design registered before it is supplied, and
    * item registered before it is used.

Design registration
Design registration is the registering of a completed design, from which any number of individual items can be manufactured. The person applying for design registration may be either the original designer or a person with management or control of the item of plant.

Item registration
Plant item registration applies to a specific item of plant and each item requires registration. The purpose of registering an item of plant is to ensure that it is inspected by a competent person and is safe to operate. It is the responsibility of the person with management or control of plant to ensure that all registrable plant items are registered.

Further information on registering plant is provided in Chapter 5 of this Code.

2. THE RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS

2.1 Identifying hazards
Identifying hazards involves finding all of the things and situations that could potentially cause harm to people. Hazards associated with plant generally arise from:
    * The plant itself, for example hazards associated with a forklift would include hazards relating to its mobility, its electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power sources, moving parts, load-carrying capacity and operator protection.
    * How and where the plant is used. The forklift, for example may have hazards arising from the kind of loads it is used to lift, the size of the area in which it is used and the slope or evenness of the ground.

Inspect the plant
Inspect each item of plant in your workplace and observe how it is used. Talk to your workers and their health and safety representatives to find out what their experience is with the plant they operate, inspect or maintain.
If you have hired or leased plant, you should also consult the person who owns the plant about potential hazards, because you both have responsibility for ensuring that the plant is safe and without risk to health and safety.
When identifying hazards you should think about all the activities that may be carried out during the life of the plant at your workplace, such as: installation, commissioning, operation, inspection, maintenance, repair, transport, storage and dismantling. For each of these activities, you should consider whether the plant could:
    * cause injury due to entanglement, falling, crushing, trapping, cutting, puncturing, shearing, abrasion or tearing
    * create hazardous conditions due to harmful emissions, fluids or gas under pressure, electricity, noise, radiation, friction, vibration, fire, explosion, moisture, dust, ice, hot or cold parts, and
    * cause injury