Your Responsibilities as a Worker Using an EWP

If you are involved in operating an Elevated Work Platform (EWP) at your job, it's important to know who is responsible for workplace health and safety. This responsibility falls on whoever is conducting the business or undertaking. You might be this responsible person if you are an employer, contractor, self-employed, or in control of the workplace.

Certification Requirements for EWP

The design certification for an EWP becomes invalid if the design is altered in a way that requires new safety measures. For example, changing the boom, basket, or leveling system with parts that differ from the manufacturer’s specifications would require a new certification.

If the EWP design is registered in another state and hasn't been altered in a way that needs new safety measures, you don't need to re-register it in Queensland. The manufacturer or supplier must provide the design registration number, and this number must be kept easily accessible near the EWP at all times.

If you modify an EWP, you take on the role of a manufacturer under the law. This means you must ensure the modified EWP is safe and properly design-registered.

Schedule 5 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (the Regulation) requires boom-type EWPs to have their designs registered.

Refer to Section 42 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (the Act) – Requirements for authorisation of plant or substance and, S246 of the Regulation.