Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the foundational UK law setting out the general duties employers and employees owe each other for health and safety at work.
The PPE at Work Regulations 1992 require employers to assess health and safety risks, provide suitable PPE free of charge, ensure it’s used correctly, and maintain it properly.
A Producer Compliance Scheme is an organisation that UK producers of electrical and electronic equipment must join to manage their WEEE recycling and reporting obligations.
The safe working load is another term for the rated maximum load a piece of lifting equipment can lift, used interchangeably with WLL.
For nearly two decades, the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) has been the backbone of machinery safety compliance across Europe.
Introduction Machinery is now software-defined, connected, and increasingly autonomous. The Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 treats software failures as
A question we hear regularly from clients is which assessment do they actually need for their machinery —
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