The Work Health and Safety Regulations Amendment Regulation (no.2) 2023 came into effect on 10 August 2023 and provide for minor corrections and technical refinements.

These amendments include:

Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations

• The requirement for a high risk work licence for earthmoving machinery used as a crane will be removed for machinery that has a safe rated working load of three tonnes or less. For earthmoving machinery used as a crane above three tonnes capacity, the high risk work licence required will be specified for different crane loads and will come into effect from 10 August 2025
• Holders of Class 1 demolition licence holders will be able to conduct Class 2 demolition work
• The reference to Australian Standard AS/NZS 15762 (Couplers and Accessories) 1991 has been updated to 2016 edition
• The competency of a person to conduct design verification for certain types of plant has been amended to reference the ‘knowledge and skills required to design

Work Health and Safety (Mining) Regulations

• The requirement for a high risk work licence for earthmoving machinery used as a crane will be removed for machinery that has a safe rated working load of three tonnes or less. For earthmoving machinery used as a crane above three tonnes capacity, the high risk work licence required will be specified for different crane loads and will come into effect from 10 August 2025
• Holders of Class 1 demolition licence holders will be able to to conduct Class 2 demolition work
• The reference to Australian Standard AS/NZS 15762 (Couplers and Accessories) 1991 has been updated to 2016 edition
• Replaced the definition of map coordinates in Regulation 675TA with:
  • Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 means the Reference Frame as defined in the National Measurement (Recognized-Value Standard of Measurement of Position) Determination 2017 (Commonwealth) Schedule 1;
  • map coordinates means the Map Grid of Australia 2020 rectangular coordinates derived from a Universal Transverse Mercator projection of latitudes and longitudes based on the Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020.
• Schedule 27 clause 6 amended to update requirements for quarry managers such that the manager of a quarry where explosives are not used will not be required to have skills/knowledge in the use of explosives.