Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

INSPECTION OF MACHINERY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 5 OF 1986) - REG 2

2. Regulation 22B of the Inspection of Machinery Regulations is amended—

        (a)     by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(1) An occupier of premises shall not require a person to perform work in a place in which—

        (a)     the daily noise dose to which the person is exposed exceeds 0.33; or

        (b)     the A weighted sound pressure level exceeds 115 decibels.”;

and

        (b)     by adding at the end the following sub-regulations:

“(4) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), daily noise dose shall be calculated—

        (a)     in accordance with the procedure set out in section 3 of Australian Standard 1269-1983; and

        (b)     using an instrument referred to in Australian Standard 2399-1980 as a personal noise dosemeter, being an instrument that complies with the requirements of that Standard.

“(5) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), the A weighted sound pressure level shall be calculated—

        (a)     in accordance with the procedure set out in clause 2.6 of section 2 of Australian Standard 1269-1983; and

        (b)     using an instrument referred to in Australian Standard 1259-1982 as a Type 1, Type 2 or Type 3 sound level meter, being an instrument that complies with the requirements of that Standard.

“(6) In this regulation, a reference to an Australian Standard shall be read as a reference to that Standard as in force at the time the sub-regulation in which that reference appears takes effect.

“(7) In this regulation—

‘A weighted sound pressure level' means sound pressure level weighted in accordance with frequency weighting A;

‘daily noise dose' has the same meaning as in Australian Standard 1269-1983;

‘frequency weighting A' has the same meaning as in Australian Standard 1259-1982.”.