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The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) has announced that it will begin a 'Machinery guarding, safe isolation and maintenance' inspection across concrete premises
The inspection will commence from 13 November through to December 2023.
HSENI Inspectors will be ensuring that machinery is adequately guarded to prevent access to dangerous parts. Inspectors will review the measures in place to ensure routine and non-routine maintenance can be safely carried out as well as checking that operators have adequate procedures in place for safe isolation and lock-out of equipment.
During the visit, Inspectors will provide advice and information. If significant risks are found, Inspectors may take enforcement action in order to comply with health and safety legislation and to ensure that the risks are properly managed.
HSENI Principal Inspector Brian Pryce said: "Machinery guarding, isolation and maintenance activities remain a major risk for the sector. Our key message is to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery, and to develop, implement and supervise appropriate procedures for carrying out maintenance (i.e. isolation and lock-out).
"In the past two years two fatal incidents have occurred at concrete premises involving work equipment. Our Inspectors will be checking that adequate arrangements are in place to guard dangerous moving parts of work equipment, and that suitable procedures are in place to safely complete both routine and non-routine maintenance."
