Work equipment PUWER

Guards are physical barriers which prevent access to the danger zone. The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) require employers to take effective measures to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery. These regulations also apply to contact with a rotating bar which projects beyond the headstock of a lathe. 

The primary objective of the Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 PUWER is to ensure that no work equipment, including power presses, gives rise to risks to health and safety regardless of the work equipments, age, condition and origin. 

Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (1998) and Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 98)... 

The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992 (SMSR) - which relates to the safety standards of new plant and machinery which has been purchased since 1 January 1993. One of its aims is to promote the freer movement of goods between Member States using safety standards as the criteria. 9 The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) -which is concerned with the use of plant and equipment that had been purchased for use at work before 1 January 1993, i.e. existing plant at that date. 

The current legislation that lays down requirements for the use of any equipment at work is the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER). These Regulations take over the greater part of the requirements contained in the now largely defunct Factories Act 1961 (FA) but extend to include every item of plant, equipment or tool used at work. However, the... 

In addition PUWER requires that work equipment must be ... 

The Regulations require risks to people s health and safety from equipment they use at work to be prevented or controlled. Although power presses are included as work equipment, part IV of PUWER contains specific requirements for power presses and is dealt with in Chapter 17. In addition to the requirements of PUWER, lifting equipment is also subject to the requirements of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 and is dealt with in Chapter 20. 

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) require, amongst other things, that all machinery is suitable for its intended use and is properly maintained, and that employees, including those using, mounting and managing the operation of abrasive wheels, are fully informed and properly trained in their use. 

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Reguiations (PUWER) Controi of Substances Hazardous to Heaith Regulations (COSHH) Confined Spaces Regulations... 

This chapter covers the scope and main requirements for work equipment as covered by Parts II and III of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER). The requirements for the supply of new machinery are aiso inciuded. Summaries of PUWER and The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations are given in Chapter 20. The safe use of hand tools, handheld power tools and the proper safe-guarding of a small range of machinery used in construction work are included. 

PUWER requires that where safety is dependent on the installation conditions and/or the work equipment is exposed to conditions causing deterioration, which may result in a significant risk and a dangerous situation developing, that the equipment is inspected by a competent person. In this case the competent person would normally be an employee, but there may be circumstances like specialized earth moving equipment, where an outside competent person would be used. 

To operate work equipment safeiy it must be fitted with easiiy reached and operated controls kept stab properly lit kept ciear and provided with adequate markings and warning signs. These are covered by PUWER, which appiies to aii types of work equipment. 

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) British Standard - Specification for flat woven webbing slings BS - Guide to selection and use of lifting slings for multipurposes... 

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) are made under the HSW Act and their primary aim is to ensure that work equipment is used without risks to health and safety, regardless of its age, condition or origin. The requirements of PUWER that are relevant to woodworking machinery are set out in the Safe use of woodworking machinery Approved Code of Practice. PUWER has specific requirements for risk assessment which are covered under the Health and Safety Management Regulations. 

The main purpose of this section is to require additional precautions relating to work equipment while it is travelling from one location to another or where it does work while moving. If the equipment is designed primarily for travel on public roads the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 will normally be sufficient to comply with PUWER 98. 

All powered work equipment should be capable of being isolated from its soiuce of power (reg. 19). This is a requirement of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 but PUWER 2 extends it to include hydraulic, pneumatic and any other source of power. When used, work equipment must be stable either inherently, by clamping or by using stabilising devices such as the outriggers on mobile cranes and on access towers (reg. 20), and be sufficiently well lit to enable the work to be carried out without risk to health or safety (reg. 21). 

Altiiough rider operated reach and counterbalance trucks are the most common in use, the operating conditions that apply to them also largely apply to other types of truck. Legislative requirements for the safe operation of mobile work equipment are contained in part III of PUWER 98 and include ... 

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 98) revokes the Power Press Regulations but contains specific requirements for power presses in part IV of the Regulations. PUWER 98 is supported by the HSC Code of Practice and Guidance Safe use of power presses. ... 

Under PUWER, not only the operators of any plant and machinery, being work equipment, but their supervisors and managers must be trained ... 

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