On 25 December 2023 amendments relating to amusement devices under the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012 (the Regulations) came into effect.

The new regulations have been adopted from the model work health and safety regulations provided by Safe Work Australia.

The regulations introduce new provisions for improved record keeping and operator training for amusement devices and passenger ropeways.

If your business provides amusement devices that people use as entertainment, like carnival rides or devices, you need to be aware of the new requirements. The new regulations require more detail to be included in amusement device log books, including complete histories of notices issued by work health and safety inspectors, full operational dates, maintenance history, faults, storage details, the operators’ history, and identification.

The new provisions require that a log book be kept with the amusement device and be made available to anyone in control of the device.

Operators must also be able to produce any information within the logbook upon request and failure to do so is an offence.

The aim of the new regulations is to ensure a full comprehensive record of amusement devices is available to regulators as devices travel across Australia.

Visit our Amusement Devices page for a full summary of the changes.