Puwer assessment checklist

Template Questions

• Is the work equipment constructed and adapted for the purpose for which it is used?
• Guidance: All work equipment is to be constructed or adapted so as to be suitable for the purpose for
• ACOP: When selecting work equipment, employers should take into account ergonomic risks so the operat
• Has the work equipment been selected taking into account the working conditions, including existing and any additional risks?
• Guidance: Employer must ensure that equipment is suitable for the process and conditions of use
• ACOP: Work equipment should be installed, located and used in such a way as to reduce risks to users
• Comments
• Is work equipment maintained in an efficient state, efficient working order, and in good repair?
• Guidance: All work equipment should be maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order a
• If the machinery has a maintenance log, is it kept up to date?
• Guidance: The maintenance of work equipment should be properly managed. i.e. planned preventative mai
• Where safety of equipment depends on installation conditions, has a competent person inspected it after installation, before putting it into service?
• Guidance: Equipment that should receive an inspection will include: a) Horizontal injection moulding
• Is the use of the word equipment likely to involve a specific risks to health and safety?
• ACOP: Risks must be controlled by: a) elimination of the risks or, if not possible, b) taking hardwar
• Is a designated and adequately trained person available to carry out repairs, modifications or other similar work on the equipment?
• ACOP: Such a person should have received proper instruction, information and training for such work.
• Do all equipment operators have available; adequate health and safety information and instructions for use of work equipment?
• Guidance: Information can be in writing or verbal where this is considered to be sufficient. Written
• Does information and instruction provided to the users include: ?
• a) conditions under which, and methods by, equipment may be usedb) foreseeable abnormal conditions ac
• ACOP: Any information and written instructions you provide should be readily comprehensible and cover
• Have all persons who use, manage, or supervise the use of work equipment been adequately trained?
• Guidance: All persons who use, manage, or supervise the use of work equipment should have received ad
• ACOP: Specific training will be required for certain types of work equipment such as self-propelled w
• Has the work equipment been designed and constructed in compliance with any essential requirements?
• Guidance: You should check that any work equipment provided for use after 31 December 1992 bears a CE
• Are effective measures in place to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery? (Or to any rotating barstock)
• Guidance: The regulations provide a hierarchy of guarding of dangerous part of machinery, i.e. any pi
• Do the measures required to be taken consist of the following?
• (a) The provision of fixed guards closing every dangerous part? (b) Where (a) is not practical, then
• Guidance: Your risk assessment should identify the hazards presented by machinery and evaluate the ri
• Are guards/protection devices suitable for purpose, of sound construction, adequate strength, and maintained in working order, and in good repair?
• Is work equipment protected against specific hazards e.g. falling articles, disintegration, ejection, overheating, explosion etc?
• Guidance: Employers should prevent articles or substances falling or being injected from work equipme
• Are control measures by means other than provision of PPE, or information, instruction, training or supervision (so far as is reasonably practicable)?
• Guidance: PPE may be appropriate where a risk remains that cannot be eliminated. Training etc will ha
• Our work equipment surfaces, and any articles or substances produced, protected against high or very low temperatures?
• Guidance: You should ensure that work equipment, parts of the equipment and articles or substances pr
• Are adequate controls provided on the work equipment for:
• (a) Starting the work equipment? (Including restarting after a stoppage for any reason), or:
• Note where such conditions, after the change, result in a risks to health and safety which is greater
• Guidance: Where appropriate, work equipment should be provided with one or more controls for starting
• Is work equipment provided with one or more readily accessible controls to stop work equipment?
• Guidance: Where appropriate, work equipment should be provided with one or more readily accessible co
• Where appropriate, is work equipment provided with one or more readily accessible emergency stop controls?
• Guidance: An emergency stop control should be provided where the other safeguards are not adequate to
• Are all controls for work equipment clearly visible and identifiable and appropriately marked where necessary?
• Guidance: Where controls have to be positioned where people are at some risk, e.g. robot teaching pen
• Are all control systems safe, free from faults or damage and do not impede access to stop controls?
• Guidance: All control systems of work equipment must be safe and operation must not create an increas
• Is work equipment provided with suitable, clearly identifiable and readily accessible means of isolating it from its source of energy?
• Guidance: If work on isolated equipment is done by more than one person, locking devices with multipl
• Is the work equipment stable?
• Guidance: All work equipment and parts of work equipment should be stabilised by clamping, or otherwi
• Is suitable and sufficient lighting provided to the work equipment?
• Guidance: Suitable and sufficient lighting, which takes account of the operations need to be carried
• Can the work equipment always be shut down for maintenance?
• Guidance: Where reasonably practicable, steps should be taken to ensure that work equipment is constr
• Comments:
• Is work equipment clearly and visibly marked and labelled for the purposes of health and safety?
• Guidance: All the equipment should be marked in a clearly visible manner with any marking appropriate
• Our permanent printed warnings on, or close to, work equipment?
• Guidance: Warnings can be permanent printed warnings, which may be attached to, or incorporated into,
• Is the equipment free from leaks or discharges?
• Regulation reference
• Action Required
• By whom
• Site Manager
• Name/Sign:
• Department Manager
• Maintenance Supervisor
• Operator representative/team leader or supervisor
• Financial controller
• Purchasing Representative