Plant and Equipment Inspections
Making sure you conduct the right types of inspections and examinations
If your organisation uses plant and/or equipment in the course of work you must comply with PUWER (The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 ) and LOLER (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998). These pieces of legislation exist to ensure that work equipment is always safe to use.
All items of plant and equipment must be regularly inspected, serviced, maintained and, in some instances, calibrated. To prove that you are doing this it is essential to keep records providing an audit trail of all the checks you carry out.
Certain pieces of work equipment require Working and Thorough inspections to be undertaken by an appropriately qualified person or company. This is because serious harm can be caused by poorly-maintained or incorrectly operated machinery.
If anyone is injured as a result of your faulty work equipment, your organisation can face very large fines and even imprisonment especially if you cannot provide evidence of a thorough inspection and servicing regime.
So to avoid the chance of any problems of this kind arising, contact us and we will set up the system for you. We will check your list of plant and equipment against the legislation and advise you of the regimes you must put in place. We will even provide the requisite forms for you AND train the relevant staff.
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More“ I would just like to pass on my sincere thanks and appreciation for the help, advice, knowledge and professionalism of Westminster Compliance, and the speed of turnaround of each of our document submissions. I would not have been able to do it without you both, thank you. Good News, we passed first time again this year and received the certificate yesterday. ”
Linda Egan A1 Instalec“ Despite your reassurances and confidence that nothing bad would result from this unfortunate incident, we were worried throughout the time the legal people were writing rather nasty letters. We will always trust your judgement and will always want you to look after our health and safety arrangements. ”
AGP Cleaning Services“ As I do not enjoy administration and paperwork, my sincere thanks go to the Westminster Compliance admin team for taking care of this for us. ”
Cyril Smith Fencing Ltd“ Thanks to all the team at Westminster Compliance whose guidance and regular contact gives GCS reassurance with all health and safety issues. ”
GCS London Limited“ Thanks for making available this low cost and extremely efficient system for training my staff. ”
GBE Installations Limited“ Westminster Compliance helped us with everything that I requested along with further requirements that I did not realize I needed and all within the original price quoted. ”
Gordon Homes“ We wanted to have health and safety arrangements in place but never realised the effect this manual would have on gaining new business. ”
Neil Egleton Our Heritage Tree Services Ltd“ Knowing that you can take care of many aspects of training in various ways and at the right price makes my working life so much easier. ”
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