MACHINE SAFETY FEATURE
manufacturing will also find risk of death in relation to their machines too. From a humble workshop lathe, to a complex
automated production line, if actions are not taken to ensure their suitability and condition, they can pose huge risks (and far too often, fatal) to the employee. The risks come primarily in the form of
inspections by competent persons to ensure work equipment is safe to operate and maintain. In most cases this is done through PUWER inspections that are in addition to any other internal checks are normally done (prestart checks, preventative maintenance etc.).
SO HOW DO WE GET A PUWER PLAN IN PLACE? PUWER inspection is one example of a recurring compliance activity and for this reason is better understood as a part of a process rather than a single event.
What happens to PUWER compliance when your mind is overrun with COVID-19 messaging?
Have you delayed your inspections?
Have you failed to even plan for where inspections are needed at all?
Delay is understandable, but a failure to plan is not. As the HSE have pointed out, COVID-19 is not
a “get out of jail free” card to ignore your duties. PUWER compliance keeps workers safe and is a part of the social contract that employers commit to when going into business. Do not let your workers or you employer down by failing to plan for PUWER compliance. PUWER inspection, planning and prioritisation is
the first step on your way to PUWER compliance. Spiers Safety have developed a PUWER risk
mapping method called “PIPP”. This enables your organisation to prioritise resources where they are most needed, based on risk. The purpose of this process is to provide a rationale for generating the PUWER register and maintaining it.
It is important not to let the day-to-day
maintenance checks and PUWER inspection planning regimes be lost in the noise of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 risk management is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and we need find a way to blend it into risk management without losing sight of the imminent harm that work equipment represents. Spiers Engineering Safety are offering a free
site audit to kick-start your PUWER plan for the remainder of 2020 into 2021. Visit
https://www.spierssafety.co.uk/pipp- audit?campaign_id=119 to find out more.
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