The following text was taken from City of Gold Coast: Work Health and Safety :

This procedure establishes Council of the City of Gold Coast’s (Council) requirements for the operation of mobile and fixed plant and equipment.  It outlines the minimum Council standards/requirements to ensure that the risk to health and safety from operating, maintaining and cleaning of mobile and fixed plant and equipment is managed appropriately.  This procedure must be referred to when conducting an activity risk assessment for an activity which identifies mobile and fixed plant and equipment as a hazard.

Mobile Plant (e.g. backhoes, excavators, rollers, loaders etc.), fixed plant (e.g. conveyors, belt presses, pumps, pressure vessels, lifts, cranes etc.) and equipment (e.g. small plant, forklifts, pedestrian rollers and generators etc.) are machinery used for construction, operational and maintenance works.

Most at risk workers are:

  • A City worker undertaking work on behalf of the City is involved in an incident whilst operating plant and equipment resulting in loss of life
  • A City worker undertaking work on behalf of the City is involved in an incident whilst operating plant and equipment resulting in a single serious injury
  • A team of City workers undertaking working on behalf of the City are involved in an incident whilst operating plant and equipment resulting in multiple persons sustaining serious injury