Sugar Industry Code of Practice 2005
This Sugar Industry Code of Practice, including its supplementary documents Sugar Mill Safety supplement and Cane Rail Safety supplement, give practical advice about ways to manage exposure to risks identified as typical in the sugar industry. The code identifies hazards common to the sugar industry and suggests possible controls.
In all cases employers, self-employed persons, persons in control and others with obligations under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 KB) should ensure that the health and safety hazards in the industry are controlled using a risk management approach. It is expected that mill operators and cane rail operators will develop a hazard register based around this code and its supplementary documents, assess the risk involved with those hazards, implement controls, and monitor and review the systems implemented.
This Sugar Industry Code of Practice 2005:
- Replaces the Sugar Milling Operations Industry Code of Practice 1999
- Was made on 24 May 2005
- Commences on 24 May 2005
- Was amended on April 28 2006
- Expires 10 years after its commencement.
Obligations under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995
The Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (the Act) imposes obligations on certain people at workplaces to ensure workplace health and safety. Workplace health and safety is ensured when persons are free from death, injury or illness created by workplaces, relevant workplaces areas, work activities, or plant or substances for use at a workplace. Ensuring workplace health and safety involves identifying and managing exposure to the risks at your workplace.
How can I meet my obligations?
Under the Act, there are three types of instruments to help you meet your workplace health and safety obligations – regulations, ministerial notices and codes of practice.
If there is a regulation or ministerial notice about a risk, you MUST do what the regulation or notice says.
If there is a code of practice about a risk, you MUST either –
- do what the code says; or
- do all of the following –
- adopt and follow another way that gives the same level of protection against the risk;
- take reasonable precautions; and
- exercise proper diligence.
If there is no regulation, ministerial notice or code of practice about a risk, you must choose an appropriate way to manage exposure to the risk and take reasonable precautions and exercise proper diligence to ensure that your obligations are met.
NOTE: There may be additional risks at your workplace, which have not been specifically addressed in this Sugar Industry Code of Practice, including its supplementary documents. You are still required under the Act to identify and assess these risks and ensure that control measures are implemented and reviewed to eliminate or minimise exposure to these risks.
This code of practice should be read in conjunction with the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995, Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 1997 and other relevant codes of practice. Where applicable, these codes of practice are referred to in the text.
Last updated 28 August 2008