Senior managers are required to pay particular attention to work equipment in their business operations. This article from Croner-i sets out the essential legal background information and those checks that managers need to make on work equipment to ensure workers are safe when they use it. The article also highlights some recent prosecution cases against those who failed to stay on the right side of the law.
 

What is work equipment?

Firstly, it should be noted that the term “work equipment” has a very broad definition which means that it includes any:

• machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work
• equipment that employees themselves provide for use at work
• machines from the simple to the very complex, eg from guillotines to welding equipment and industrial robots.