What is PUWER?
The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations, often abbreviated to PUWER, place duties on people and companies who own, operate or have control over work equipment. PUWER also places responsibilities on companies whose employees use work equipment, whether owned by them or not. We show you that PUWER compliance doesn't have to be an impediment to your work.
We are different! What we give are practical solutions based on real world applications. Machinery Safety & Compliance Services consultants are engineers. We tell you what you need to do to put it right, and more importantly, what you don't need to do. What you need are safe and useable machines, not just a bunch of risk assessments. We never leave you without a solution.
This exciting role gives you opportunities to become a valued member of a small team and gain expertise in machinery safety. As the company expands, this role is ideally positioned to grow responsibility. Staged training will be given to the successful candidate to build knowledge and experience and confidence to become an excellent and respected consultant.
Our IIRSM (International Institute of Risk & Safety Management) approved training course is a 4 day course that is designed to provide the necessary information and detail to inform customers of their obligations under PUWER and CE/UKCA along with knowledge to assist with enabling much of the PUWER and CE/UKCA marking processes to be carried out in-house.
There are plenty of conditions in which a machine would require to be inspected that are fully covered in PUWER regulation 6 to ensure healthy and safety conditions are maintained to a high standard.
A requirement of PUWER is that an individual considered to be a competent person, must examine, and test the machinery before it is first used. This is what’s known as a PUWER Inspection.
It doesn't matter what kind of workplace you're in, every employer is duty-bound to comply with health and safety regulations to protect employees from exposure to hazards that could affect their health or cause serious bodily harm, this can be related to manual handling tasks, the operation of workplace equipment such as machinery or display screens, therefore implementing a solid health and safety strategy is one of the wisest things you can do for your business.
On 5 September 2018, two employees of Sulzer Electro Mechanical Services (UK) were standing on the chuck of a large vertical boring machine at a site in Bordesley, Birmingham, to set it. The start button was inadvertently pressed and, despite the interlocked perimeter fencing access doors being open, the chuck started to rotate.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigators revealed that the interlocks on the perimeter fencing access doors were not working, and there were no safety checks in place to ensure that the interlocks were in working order.
Our Opto-Check gives you a quick and easy method to accurately check the operation of an opto-electronic sensing device, based on the methods as referenced by BS EN ISO 61496-2 and HSG180. It can be used during the design, installation, and inspection of barrier guards to make sure they operate correctly. 
A Northampton-based engineering firm has been fined after an operator was crushed while making moulds for a casting machine.
The RSM Castings employee, who has asked to remain anonymous, sustained extensive injuries on 11 April 2018, including a broken neck, back fractures, broken ribs, a fractured shoulder blade, a ruptured spleen and torn liver, a punctured lung, facial fractures and loss of teeth.
He has not yet been able to return to work due the severity of his injuries.
Hendon Magistrates’ Court was told that Renault Retail Group was warned the lifts in Coulsdon and West London were defective and dangerous.
2 Sisters Food Group was ordered to pay £1.4m plus costs of £38,000 in late March after an employee sustained serious crush injuries on a poultry slaughtering line at its factory on the Foxhills Industrial Estate in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, in September 2012.
PUWER is the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations and requires users of work equipment to carry out regular risk assessments which are documented and kept on file. Most importantly, those risk assessments must address each of the...
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