Every year, unsafe machinery contributes to serious workplace injuries and costly legal consequences across Australia. Ensuring machinery and plant safety isn’t just good practice, it’s a legal obligation under workplace health and safety (WHS) regulations. To support this, Advitech has developed a series of role-specific guides outlining legal responsibilities.
WHS legislation outlines specific legal duties for all roles involved in the machinery lifecycle, from design and manufacture to supply, operation, and decommissioning. Every duty holder must take steps to eliminate or reduce risks. This responsibility applies even if others have already met their obligations.
Advitech has produced a white paper, with accompanying checklists, to inform stakeholders of their obligations within NSW WHS legislation and to serve as a practical guide for organisations seeking to enhance safety in the workplace and regulatory compliance in relation to machine safety.
Advitech’s Group Lead of Risk and Functional Safety, Jemima Jackson, is passionate about organisations thinking beyond compliance, to best practice safety for workers.
“Machinery safety compliance is not just about your statutory obligations; it’s about ensuring your staff go home safe every day,” said Jemima.
“It is common that people aren’t fully aware of their machinery safety obligations, so we’ve produced these guides, specific to roles, so that the obligations are clear,” she said.
Compliance with statutory obligations need not be onerous, in fact there are a number of small tweaks that can be made in the way equipment is managed that can deliver huge dividends.
Advitech wants to make this information as widespread as possible, bringing benefits to businesses and all the people who work in them, and to this end has prepared free guides specific to each of the following roles:
- Plant designers
- Plant manufacturers
- Plant Suppliers
- Plant Installers
- Plant importers
- Plant managers
Each role-specific guide contains:
- A breakdown of key WHS regulations relevant to machinery and plant
- Guidance on applying AS 4024.1201 to your safety processes
- Role-specific checklists to support compliance
Jemima and her team specialise in machinery safety and understand the complexities of WHS obligations. They work closely with businesses to simplify compliance, create efficiencies, and provide clear, practical guidance.
“We’re passionate about helping our clients develop practical and compliant machinery safety solutions. We can support anyone with statutory obligations under the WHS Regulations through the whole machinery safety lifecycle,” said Jemima.
Protect your people, ensure compliance and improve safety. Contact us at Advitech for expert machinery risk assessments and machine safety services whether you’re in Newcastle, Sydney, NSW or beyond.
