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Here at Mechanical Solutions we have an enhanced safety ladder program. We only use ladders as a last resort and when we do, we use specialized platform ladders which provide a more stable working platform. What are some ladder safety programs your business has implemented? Let us know in the comments!

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Maintenance is of vital importance to machinery safety. Correctly maintaining your work equipment, as per manufacturer’s instructions, will reduce the likelihood of faults. If you want to learn more about PUWER, then visit our website and get in touch today. www.standl.co.uk #merrychristmas  #STAndL #workplacesafety  #healthandsafety #riskmanagement  #machinerysafety  #safetysolutions  #safetyinspection #puwer  #safetytraining  #riskassessment  #safetyplan #safetysystems #employeesafety

Let's talk about #equipment #maintenance Do you have to maintain the equipment you provide for your workers? The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 require that "Every employer shall ensure that work equipment is maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair." How can you do this? Choose your maintenance strategy by taking into account 👉 Frequency of use 👉 User competency 👉 Work environment 👉 Manufacturer's recommendations 👉 The risk from foreseeable failure and maintenance The 3 strategies are - 1️⃣ Planned preventative maintenance. This strategy is based on the definable working life of parts. Inspecting, maintaining, servicing and replacing these parts according to a schedule is intended to reduce or avoid breakdowns and failures of equipment. 2️⃣ Condition based maintenance This relies on monitoring the condition of equipment and carrying out maintenance when performance starts to deteriorate, indicating that failure is likely. This relies on a robust system of feedback and the ability to take equipment out of use as soon as its performance starts to deteriorate. 3️⃣ Breakdown maintenance This is carried out when a piece of equipment has failed. This can be cost saving in terms of monitoring equipment, but allowing a piece of equipment to fail and can lead to more costly repairs as well as presenting risk to workers. Whatever maintenance strategy strategy you choose, you must ✅ Test safety related parts routinely ✅ Keep any maintenance logs up to date ✅ Inspect equipment as required by other regulations like LOLER ✅ Ensure testing is carried out in accordance with a safe system of work #HealthAndSafety #WorkplaceSafety #EquipmentMaintenance #LegalCompliance #SafetyFirst #OccupationalHealth #SafetyStandards #RegulatoryCompliance #RiskManagement #SafetyConsulting #WorkplaceWellness #IndustrialSafety #ComplianceMatters #EHS #SafeWorkplace #LegalResponsibilities #SafetyCulture #PreventiveMaintenance #smallbusiness #CorporateSafety #acumensafety

Are you keeping your Spill Kit properly maintained? Your spill kit provides a fast and direct response to workplace spills. Whether it's for general liquids, fuel, or Hazchem spills, the right spill kit can help you to contain potentially dangerous discharges. However, like all safety equipment within your business, your spill kit does require some maintenance in order to remain effective and ready for use. The basics: 1. Train personnel in spill kit maintenance 2. Make spill kit maintenance part of your routine 3. Conduct spill kit checks every 3 months What to include in spill kit maintenance: 4. Perform a spill kit contents check 5. Ensure all spill kit parts and supplies are in working order 6. Replace old or worn components 7. Make sure spill kits are strategically placed 8. Check for rubbish or other foreign objects What to avoid: 9. Without regular maintenance, people often don't discover that their spill kit parts and supplies are depleted, until a spill occurs, at which point it is too late. Don't let this happen to you. 10. As all spill kit components are housed within the product's container, there are often no obvious signs that it needs attention. The only way to ensure that your spill kit is always ready for use is with regular maintenance.

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Implementation of safety measures by the user of machinery and work equipment Based on the information for use provided by the designer, the machine user should implement safety measures for reducing residual risk that remains despite inherent safe design measures, safeguarding and complementary protective measures adopted. User obligations for additional safeguards, personal protective equipment, work organisation and training were formulated in Directive 2009/104/EC[8]. The main obligation consists in taking measures necessary to ensure that the work equipment is suitable for the work to be carried out. If necessary, work equipment should be properly adapted to the work in such a way that workers can use it without impairment to their safety or health. Additional safeguarding The employer should ensure that work equipment is installed, located and used in a way ensuring that the risks to the operators and other workers have been reduced. In particular, sufficient space between moving parts of work equipment and fixed or moving parts should be allowed. Very often, the application of additional safeguarding is necessary, which might result from a particular location or way of machine installation. In such a case, the application of fixed guards should be considered first. However, if for technological reasons access to danger zones is required, movable guards or protective devices should be applied. The same rules as those formulated for the machinery manufacturer apply when installing additional safeguards. Inspection of work equipment Long-term results of using a machine usually consist in constant degradation of its sub-assemblies, due to both material deterioration and mechanical wear. The aforementioned phenomena, if not investigated in a proper way, may cause machine failure. If safety-related elements fail, accidents may happen. Therefore, work equipment should be periodically inspected. The frequency and scope of the inspection should be determined based on the manufacturer’s information enclosed in the “Information for use". One should also consider the intensity of machine exploitation and the risk level arising in operation of the machine. In individual cases of machines with high-risk levels, the frequency of inspection is specified in Directive 2009/104/EC which specifies the following types of inspection: initial inspection (after installation and before first being put into service) and an inspection after assembly at a new site or in a new location periodic inspections and, where appropriate, testing within the means of national laws and/or practices special inspections each time exceptional circumstances that are liable to jeopardise the safety of the work equipment have occurred, such as work modification, accidents, natural phenomena or prolonged periods of inactivity. #safetyfirst #EISA #PPE

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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