Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00422:body:0:p22
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00422
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Character Range: 53863–56557

isolated before maintenance or cleaning commences. Where plant is isolated and plant shutdown will result, any total or partial shutdown should not allow a hazardous situation to be created.

Isolated or disengaged plant should:
    * not hinder or interfere with the operation of any other plant
    * have guards in place where a risk of injury is identified, and
    * not obstruct access.
A process should be put in place to enable effective communication and consultation with affected workers and other persons conducting a business or undertaking to prevent any risk to health and safety arising from restarting the operation of the plant which has been shut down due to inspection, maintenance or cleaning.

Where plant cannot be isolated, methods to prevent accidental operation must be implemented. The work should be carried out under controlled procedures to allow for maintenance and cleaning without risk to the health and safety of the person performing the work.

Regulation 210: If there is a need to operate plant during maintenance or cleaning, the person with management or control of the plant must ensure that the operators' controls allow the safe operation of the plant while a person is undertaking the maintenance or cleaning.

If the plant is operated by a person other than the person who is carrying out the maintenance or cleaning, the person operating the plant must be authorised to do so by the person with management or control of the plant.

Following maintenance all guarding must be replaced prior to start-up of plant.

Damaged plant should be withdrawn from service until any risks to health and safety have been controlled.

3.8 Storing plant
Regulation 207: A person with management or control of plant at a workplace must ensure that plant not in use is left in a state that does not create a risk to the health or safety of any person.
Plant that is not in use must be stored so that it does not create a risk to workers or other people in the workplace. Where plant is to be placed in storage, you should:
    * ensure relevant health and safety information supplied by the designer or manufacturer is provided to the person who is to dismantle or store the plant, and
    * implement control measures to eliminate or, if that is not reasonably practicable, minimise the risks of damage to plant during storage, for example from corrosion as a result of exposure to residues of hazardous substances and deterioration of consumables.
Before plant is used after an extended period of storage, the plant should be re-commissioned by carrying out the same level of testing and inspection when it was first commissioned.
Plant that has been taken off-line