Mechanical Workshop Safety Rgulation

MECHANICAL WORKSHOP SAFETY REGULATIONS 1. Free access to the workshop areas is restricted to authorised personnel only. No other person may enter the workshop without permission. 2. No machine may be used or work undertaken unless the technician-in-charge is satisfied that the person is capable of doing so safely. If equipment is fitted with guards these must be used. Equipment should never be used if the safety guards have been removed. 3. Any person working in the mechanical workshop must familiarise themselves. 4. Any person working in the mechanical workshop must have read and signed the appropriate risk assessment if the work or equipment they are using has been risk assessed. 5. Personal Protective Equipment is provided and must be used where necessary. Barrier cream, lab. coats, safety glasses/goggles and safety shoes are to be used as the work dictates. When working with machine tools or other equipment with rotating spindles, jewellery, loose clothes etc. are prohibited and long hair must be completely covered. 6. No hazardous substance to health can be used before a COSHH risk assessment is undertaken and a safe system of work issued to the users. 7. No person shall mount any abrasive wheel unless he/she has been trained in accordance with the Abrasive wheel Regulations 1970. Grinding machines shall only be operated by technical staff and eye protection must be worn. 8. Do not carry loads such that the weight may be dangerous or vision obscured. Servicing records of all machine tools, plant and equipment must be kept. They must list the date of any service/repair and the person responsible for carrying out that service/repair. Faults which cannot be repaired immediately should be reported to David Wyse (50 4499) and a note indicating that the equipment is out of order attached to the machine where it is clearly visible. 9. Report any defective equipment to the technician-in-charge. 10. Smoking, eating and