AS 7471 Personal Protective Equipment – Minimum Requirements

The closing date for comments – Tuesday 17 March 2026.

The latest review of the AS 7471 Australian Rail Personal Protective Equipment – Minimum Requirements draft is now open for Public Consultation.

How this product helps the rail industry

AS 7471 provides Rail Transport Operators (RTOs) with a risked based approach for the use of PPE to protect workers against injury or illness. It aims to harmonise PPE requirements across the rail industry and drive productivity and efficiencies.

It outlines the minimum requirements for the use of PPE when accessing a railway operating environment. 

About

AS 7471 Australian Rail Personal Protective Equipment – Minimum Requirements has been reviewed and updated by an industry-led Development Group.

The review focused on ensuring PPE requirements remain current by considering how and where PPE is used across the rail environment. This included analysing work tasks to identify physical, chemical and biological hazards, assessing environmental conditions such as temperature, noise and weather, and evaluating PPE products and items that influence appropriate selection.

How to contribute

AS 7471 Personal Protective Equipment – Minimum Requirements is available for public consultation for 60 days. All interested parties are encouraged to provide comments during this time.

It is available to download here.

To make comments on the draft, please use the commenting tools in Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to comment in-line with the text. If needed you can find instructions here.

Please return your PDF with comments to mmaartensz@ariso.org.au by Tuesday 17 March 2026.

As the rail industry’s only accredited Standards Development Organisation (SDO), ARISO collaborates with government, rail operators and industry leaders to improve the efficiency and harmonisation of the Australia’s rail network, ensuring national interoperability, safety and sustainability into the future.