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PUWER Compliance Checklist

by Richard Smith, from the Community

This PUWER compliance checklist helps assess the safety and suitability of work equipment across your site. Covering regulations 4 to 35, it guides checks on guarding, maintenance, inspections, emergency stops, isolation, control systems, and training. Record findings, attach evidence, and track corrective actions with due dates and sign off. Use it to support risk assessments, statutory examinations, and audit readiness for machinery in manufacturing and industrial environments.

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PUWER Risk Assessment: Reference 32 Issue 1
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PUWER Machinery Safety Risk Assessment

This PUWER machinery safety risk assessment template helps teams evaluate work equipment across mechanical and non-mechanical hazards, intended use and location, and user competency. Record controls such as interlocks, guarding, emergency stops, isolation, and permits to work. Capture PPE requirements, training and supervision, pre-use checks, and maintenance regimes. Assess likelihood and severity to rate risk, note additional assessments such as COSHH, noise, vibration, and manual handling, consider environmental impacts, and document sign-off and review dates.

by Ross Troughton, from the Community

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PUWER Inspection Checklist

This PUWER inspection checklist helps assess compliance of work equipment and machinery with the UK Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations. It covers suitability, maintenance, inspection by competent persons, specific risks, operator information, training, and conformity with CE/UKCA requirements. The checklist guides reviews of guarding and dangerous parts, protection against specified hazards, start/stop and emergency stop controls, control systems, isolation, stability, lighting, and maintenance operations. It also includes a structured risk assessment and reduction strategy with fields to record hazards, consequences, likelihood, and resulting risk levels, plus action tracking to assign tasks and due dates.

by Steve Blackshaw, from the Community

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Work Equipment Assessment Form

This work equipment assessment form helps organizations meet the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 and PUWER 1998. It guides assessors through suitability and selection, maintenance and records, authorization and training, machinery guarding, specified hazards, burn protection, control systems and emergency stops, energy isolation, securing and stability, workplace environment, PPE, safe maintenance, and safety markings. Use it to identify corrective actions and document compliance.

by Robert Ironmonger, from the Community

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PUWER Risk Assessment: Reference 32 Issue 1

Use this PUWER risk assessment template to help ensure compliance with the UK Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998. The checklist guides assessors through suitability, maintenance, inspection intervals, specific risks, training and instructions, control systems, isolation from energy sources, stability, lighting, maintenance operations, markings, warnings, and mobile equipment requirements. Ideal for manufacturing and industrial sites to document findings, identify hazards, verify CE marking, and confirm emergency stop and safe operating controls.

by Steven Everett, from the Community

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PUWER Compliance Checklist

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