Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations(1) An employer must identify any confined space at the workplace and any reasonably foreseeable hazard associated with working in the space.
(2) The employer must ensure that a risk assessment is undertaken by a suitably qualified person before any work involving entering a confined space is started for the first time.
(3) The risk assessment must include at least an assessment of—
(a) the nature of the space and the work to be done; and
(b) whether work can be done without entering the space; and
(c) different ways that the work can be done; and
(d) the risks associated with the method of work, the plant to be used and any potential hazard in the space.
(4) The employer must ensure that the risk assessment is reviewed if there is evidence that the risk assessment does not address, or no longer addresses, the risks posed by the confined space.
Examples
1 the confined space is modified
2 there is an injury associated with work in the confined space
Note An example is part of the regulation, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).
(5) In this section:
"suitably qualified person", for a risk assessment, means someone who is suitably qualified by experience or training to carry out the risk assessment.