Machinery Guarding Is your machinery guarding compliant to regulation 208 of the Western Australian Work Health and Safety (General or Mines) Regulations? Failure to comply with the regulation can result in a fine of $7,000 for and individual or $35,000 for a company. If you are unsure if your machinery or plant guarding is compliant, why not have Safety Resources Australia undertake a guarding assessment of your workplace plant. By doing so any non compliance can be rectified in order to reduce operational risk. If all compliant then you will be safe knowing that is so. Regretfully, the guarding on many items of imported plant, do not comply with our regulatory requirements. Thus, even brand new machines can be non compliant to machinery safe guarding requirements. Why not contact Safety Resources Australia today to book your workplace machinery safe guarding assessment and report.
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