A one-day in-company course on the hazards and controls of work equipment under PUWER 1998, ending with a practical session assessing the work equipment on your own site.
PUWER assessment training teaches the hazards and controls of work equipment under the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, and how to assess that equipment. KeyOstas delivers it as a one-day in-company course that ends with a practical session producing a basic assessment of the work equipment on your own site.
It is for the people who use, manage or assess work equipment and machinery.
By the end of the course, every delegate will be able to do the following.
Outline the legal background to work equipment safety, including criminal and common law and the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
Describe the requirements of the Supply of Machinery Regulations and the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.
Define what is classed as work equipment and outline the responsibilities placed on employers and employees.
Explain the general requirements for work equipment, including the role of guards and protective devices.
Apply the principles of risk assessment to the use of work equipment and identify suitable control measures.
Outline the requirements for the maintenance of machinery and the safe conduct of maintenance operations.
Carry out a basic assessment of work equipment in the workplace and propose appropriate control methods.
Recommend practical control methods and feed the findings back to the people who manage the equipment.
A one-day course that moves from the law to a practical assessment of your own equipment.
Practical and applied, built around a real assessment of your own equipment.
A KeyOstas tutor delivers the one-day course at your premises, around your working pattern.
Delegates carry out a basic assessment of work equipment on your site and propose control methods, reviewed with the tutor.
Every delegate receives a KeyOstas certificate of attendance on completion.
sets the duties for the provision and use of work equipment
classroom content plus a practical assessment of your equipment
delivered at your site, anywhere in the UK
KeyOstas has trained UK workforces in health & safety since
“The training received was some of the best Health & Safety training I have experienced in my 20 years of working in Health & Safety. KeyOstas are always happy to help and work out solutions for us.”
Four decades of practical, in-company health & safety training.
We come to you, anywhere in the UK, and train your team around your working pattern.
The practical session assesses the work equipment on your own site, not generic examples.
The day ends with a real assessment and proposed controls, so delegates apply what they learn.
Four decades of training UK workforces with practical instruction, not generic e-learning.
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