On Tuesday 19 February an Amusement Device Industry meeting was held in Brisbane at Workplace Health and Safety Lutwyche office, chaired by Michael Chan, chief inspector.

The session was well attended by AALARA, The Showmen's Guild and AAA also Jack Wade (Engineer), other Australian State Regulators and workplace inspectors.

The chairman detailed moves to accept interstate registrations for amusement rides and engineers certificates. This is still to ratified by the government and is a very progressive move by the Qld department.

Next was National Plant Standards and Essential Safety Outcomes (ESO). Qld is well represented on this committee, however, a final draft is still some time away (1-2 years).

The national audit document is now in use by most states and will simplify inspections by Department inspectors.

Hopefully, inspectors will now ask the same questions and achieve uniformity between states. The issue of signing off Prohibition notices was raised and as this is not in the department regulations it will require representations from industry organisations to the Minister to have this amended.

Michael Chan will be attending the AALARA conference in May and will provide any further updates at this time.