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Industrial Safety (Tractors and Earthmoving and Mobile Construction Equipment) Order 1965

Industrial Safety, Health and Welfare Act 1961
This reprint of this Statutory Instrument incorporates all amendments, if any, made before25 November 2006 and in force at  1 July 2001.

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Legislative Counsel
Dated 25 November 2006

INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Chapter 175G.

Industrial Safety (Tractors and Earthmoving and Mobile Construction Equipment) Order 1965

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Industrial Safety (Tractors and Earthmoving and Mobile Construction Equipment) Order 1965

MADE under the Industrial Safety, Health and Welfare Act 1961.

Dated                   200 .

1. INTERPRETATION.

In this Order, unless the contrary intention appears–

“approved” means approved by an Industrial Safety Officer;

“equipment to which this Order applies” means–

(a) a tractor; or

(b) any earthmoving machine or apparatus; or

(c) a mobile construction machine or apparatus,

and includes any other machine or apparatus of a similar nature;

“operator”, in relation to any equipment to which this Order applies, includes the driver and any other person engaged in the operation of the equipment.

2. LOGGING OPERATIONS.

Equipment to which this Order applies that is used in logging operations shall be provided with an approved guard or canopy sufficient to protect the operator, as far as practicable, from falling timber, flying debris and broken or whipping winch cables.

3. EXCAVATION OPERATIONS.

(1) In this section, “high working face, side face or bank” means a working face, side face or bank from which debris or material may be dislodged so as to strike the operator from above.

(2) Equipment to which this Order applies used in excavation or construction operations in the vicinity of–

(a) a high working face, side face or bank; or

(b) timbered terrain,

shall be provided with an approved guard or canopy sufficient to protect the operator, as far as practicable, from falling or flying debris or broken or whipping winch cables.

4. PROTECTIVE CLOTHING, ETC.

An operator employed in operations referred to in Section 2 or 3 shall be provided with–

(a) an approved pattern safety helmet; and

(b) such other approved protective clothing and equipment as is reasonably necessary to protect him from the hazards of those operations.

5. UNATTENDED EQUIPMENT.

Equipment to which this Order applies shall not be left unattended unless–

(a) it is stationary on firm level ground; and

(b) the brakes are applied; and

(c) the engine or motive power is switched off or disconnected; and

(d) all attachments to it are so arranged that there is no possibility of the equipment or attachments being inadvertently moved.

6. UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS RIDING ON EQUIPMENT.

(1) Subject to Subsection (2), a person, other than an operator, shall not ride on any equipment to which this Order applies.

(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent–

(a) authorized maintenance personnel from riding on the equipment to which this Order applies in the course of their duties; or

(b) persons riding on the equipment while being trained as operators when they are provided with approved seating on the equipment.

7. MAINTENANCE.

Equipment to which this Order applies shall not be used unless–

(a) it is maintained in good mechanical condition and kept free of oil and fuel leaks; and

(b) the exhaust stack is mounted so as to direct the exhaust fumes away from the operator.

8. FUELLING.

Equipment to which this Order applies shall not be fuelled unless–

(a) the engine is stopped; and

(b) smoking is prohibited; and

(c) no naked lights are exposed within 15.25 m of the fuelling operation.

9. WARNING SIGNS.

Where equipment to which this Order applies is employed in or about a place where vehicular traffic may be expected, signs indicating that the equipment is employed shall be placed in such a manner as to ensure that warning of the presence of the equipment is given.

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