HSE L22 Safe Use of Work Equipment ACOP

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HSE L22 Safe Use of Work Equipment

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HSE L22 Safe use of work equipment. Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998

Approved code of practice and guidance.

NEW EDITION

ISBN-13:9780717662951
Published by:HSE Books
Pagination: 87 pages
Publication Date: 2008
Format: Hard Copy
Series Code: L 22

This is the third edition of the Approved Code of Practice on the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 98) It has been amended and updated to reflect the latest legislation. References throughout have been updated to include the most recent publications availble and obselete information has been removed. The Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) and substance of the guidance remains unchanged.

Who does this concern?

This book is for anyone with responsibility directly or indirectly for work equipment and its use, for example employers, employees, the self-employed and those who hire work equipment.

Contains:

PUWER 98 Regulations
The Approved Code of Practice
Guidance material written to help people use these regulations.
Amended and updated to reflect the latest legislation.
References throughout have been updated to include most recent publications
Obselete information has been removed.

PUWER 98 applies to the provision of all work equipment, including mobile and lifting equipment. It applies to all workplaces and work situations where Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSW Act) applies and extends outside Great Britain to certain offshore activities in British territorial waters and the UK Continental Shelf.

Provides practical guidance on the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998. The Regulations are made under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSW Act) and came into force on 5 December 1998.

Covers:
Citation and commencement; Interpretation; Application; Suitability of work equipment; Maintenance; Inspection; Specific risks; Information and instructions; Training; Conformity with Community requirements; Dangerous parts of machinery; Protection against specified hazards; High or very low temperature; Controls for starting or making; a significant change in operating conditions; Stop controls; Emergency stop controls; Controls; Control systems; Isolation from sources of energy; Stability; Lighting; Maintenance operations; Markings; Warnings; Employees carried on mobile work equipment; Rolling over of mobile work equipment; Overturning of fork lift trucks; Self-propelled work equipment; Remote-controlled self-propelled work equipment; Drive shafts; Power presses; Miscellaneous; Exemption from the armed forces; Transitional provision; Repeal of the enactment; Revocation of instruments.

Further Details:
3rd Edition amended to reflect the latest legislation. (Replaces 2nd.ed.Legal.ISBN-10: 0717616266
ISBN-13:9780717616268) (L22)(L 22).and the first edition entitled, 'Work equipment. Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992. Guidance on Regulations.' previously published with ISBNs 0118863320 and 0717604144 and MISC101 (MISC 101)

Price: £11.95