Competence legal requirements

Maintenance embraces regular inspection, periodic examination by competent persons , and repairs. Accidents may arise as a result of the lack of maintenance, during maintenance, and as a consequence of faulty maintenance. Preventive maintenance can be a legal requirement for, e.g., pressure vessels/boilers, lifting gear, power presses. A system is required for monitoring compliance witli scheduled preventive maintenance programmes, backed up by in-service inspection. Breakdown... 

The Board welcomes the fact that, in accordance with the standard operating procedures of Project Prism, the competent authorities of China are now sending pre-export notifications for safrole in the form of sassafras oil. In 2004, those notifications resulted in the suspension of a shipment of over 1.5 tons of sassafras oil to Canada, which was subsequently released upon completion of the legal requirements. 

A final report should be forwarded to the Health Authorities after the recall has been completed for further evaluation and action. Where legally required, the competent health authorities are also supplied with a report on the recall operation. 

There is no legal requirement to test a lift prior to commissioning, although clients may require the competent person to witness the pre-commissioning tests carried out by the manufacturers or contractors. The types of tests that would normally be carried out include ... 

ISO 26262 enlarges the concept and design space by another dimension. This is why good processes and well applied tool support are mandatory to compete with legal requirements and in the meantime develop safe vehicles, containing forward-looking technologies. 

The regulatory body is to be provided with adequate authority, competence and financial and human resources. It shall be empowered to enforce legal requirements to issue, amend, renew, suspend or cancel licences or authorizations or to recommend such actions to the government. 

References to obsolete legal requirements are removed and the revised text focuses on the modern framework of general duties, supplemented by the basics of health and safety management and risk assessment. It includes two additional boxes one for details of trade union or other safety representatives and one for competent persons appointed to assist with health and safety and their responsibilities. 

Where technical knowledge or experience may be lacking then regulation 16 requires that the person concerned shall be under an appropriate level of supervision. The legal duty allows flexibility in that competence is required in relation to the task to be performed, taking into account the nature of the equipment to be worked on, and the need to prevent danger and/or injury from electricity. Thus competence is not expected, nor would it be realistic to expect it, across the complete spectrum of work -only in relation to the activities in which the individual will be involved. 

C Cranes. Cranes, ropes, slings, chains and all types of lifting tackle are used by museums as well as industry and commerce. There are legal requirements for having identification marks, safe working load, etc., marked on equipment. Equipment has to be examined by competent persons at the intervals of time fixed by statute. In spite of this, overturned cranes and failures of equipment when in use continue to make headlines in the press. 

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