PROVISION AND USE OF WORK EQUIPMENT REGULATIONS 1998

A combination of these measures may be necessarydepending on the requirements of the work, yourassessment of the risks involved, and the practicabilityof such measures.You need to ensure that people using workequipment have received adequate training,instruction and information for the particularequipment.Mobile work equipmentIn addition to these general requirements which applyto all work equipment, Part III of PUWER containsspecific duties regarding mobile work equipment, forexample fork-lift trucks and dumper trucks.You should ensure that where mobile workequipment is used for carrying people, it is suitable forthis purpose. Measures should be taken to reduce therisks (eg from it rolling over) to the safety of thepeople being carried, the operator and anyone else.Power pressesPart IV of the Regulations also contains specificrequirements regarding power presses. In particular,you should have a power press, and associated guardor protection device, thoroughly examined atspecified intervals and inspected daily in use toensure that it is safe. This work should only beperformed by a competent person; records shouldbe kept.How do the Regulations relate to other healthand safety legislation?The requirements of the Regulations need to beconsidered alongside other health and safety law.For example, section 2 of the HSW Act requiresall employers to ensure, so far as is reasonablypracticable, the health, safety and welfare of all theiremployees. Similarly, the MHSWR contain importantduties relating to the carrying out of a risk assessment