Work equipment health and safety-Syllabus
- Selection
- Definition of work equipment
- Risk assessment & use
- Duties in respect of machinery, pressure systems and electricity on manufacturers and suppliers
- Duties under HASAWA – Section 6
- The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992
- Evidence of conformity
- Approved bodies
- Ergonomic, anthr
- Human reliability
- Fitts lists
- Design of controls
- opometric and human reliability
- considerations
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- Visual information
- Audible information
- Machinery controls
- Layout of plant & machinery
- Importance of heights of barriers and size of openings
- Failure modes and prevention
- Strength of materials
- Causes of weaknesses in materials
- Failure prevention strategies
- Failure investigation
- Major accidents involving material failure
- Destructive testing methods for materials
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