WP1323 - Working Near Overhead and Underground Electric Lines

Electricity Entity Requirements:
Working Near Overhead and Underground Electric Lines

overhead electric lines, the person, worker or PCBU is required to ensure that the potential
hazards are identified, a risk assessment conducted and the necessary control measures
implemented to minimise electrical safety risks to ensure the safety of all workers and other
persons at the workplace. The Electrical Safety Regulation 2013 and Electrical Safety Code of
Practice 2010 - Working Near Overhead and Underground Electric Lines detail the Exclusion
Zones that must be maintained.

4.2.1       Work near overhead electric lines
Where a risk assessment has been conducted and control measures implemented in
accordance with requirement of Electrical Safety Code of Practice 2010 - Working Near
Overhead and Underground Electric Lines and Electricity Entity Requirements (this document)
and it has identified that exclusion zones from overhead electric lines cannot be maintained, the
person, worker or PCBU is then required to contact Electricity Entity and request written Safety
Advice (refer Section 4.3 below).
The person, worker or PCBU shall be required to maintain exclusion zones until such times as
the Electricity Entity has provided written Safety Advice.
A person, worker or PCBU would not be required to contact the Electricity Entity and request
written Safety Advice where their risk assessment and implemented control measures ensure
that exclusion zones from overhead electric lines will be maintained throughout performance of
work to be undertaken at a particular site.

4.2.2       Exclusion Zones
An exclusion zone is a safety envelope around an
overhead electric line. No part of a worker, operating
plant or vehicle should enter an exclusion zone while the
overhead electric line is energised (live).
Exclusion zones keep people, operating plant and
vehicles a safe distance from energised overhead lines.
You must keep yourself and anything associated with
the work activity out of the exclusion zone (e.g. a safe
distance) unless it is not reasonably practicable to do so;
and the person conducting a business or undertaking
complies with the requirements of Section 68(2) of the                                                     Exclusion Zone
Electrical Safety Regulation in relation to:                                                               distances for
                                                                                                           Untrained Persons
       conducting a risk assessment;                                                                      without consultation

       implementing control measures; and
       adhering to any requirements of an Electricity Entity responsible for the line.




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