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March 06 - Staff training completed for LOLER - PUWER 98 Thorough Examination scheme. Thu 10/08/2006 LOLER/PUWER 98: On the 10th March 2006, four key members of staff completed and passed the BAGMA LOLER/PUWER Thorough Examination Scheme. The intense training took place at our premises, working 9-5 over 5 days in classroom conditions. The decision to undertake this training, was partly brought about by a number or our customers enquiring about the LOLER testing, which is required for Health & Safety issues raised by their Insurance Companies. WHAT IS LOLER/ PUWER? AND WHO DOES IT APPLY TO? LOLER (The Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations and PUWER (The Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations) came into effect in December 1998. If you provide lifting equipment at work, then the LOLER regulations apply. You must ensure that your lifting equipment meets the requirements of LOLER, for example, that the equipment is strong enough, stable enough and suitable for the proposed use. You must ensure that any lifting operation is properly planned, appropriately supervised and carried out in a safe manner; that equipment used to lift people is marked and that it is safe for the purpose. You must also ensure that lifting equipment is Thoroughly Examined before being taken into use for the first time, and at regular intervals thereafter. Please contact us for further information regarding the above tests, when you ring ask for either Brian, Mike, Hugh or Peter, these are the guys who undertook the training and they will be more than willing to give you any advise relating to your machines. If you would like to book a test, please speak to Christine and a test will be booked. Alternatively you can view further information by clicking on the respective article from under the downloads section on this page. You will need Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer to see these articles and you can download it free by clicking on the Free Adobe PDF Viewer link found under the links section of this page. |
