HSL is to run a 1 day course on - Machinery Risk Assessment Essentials.

This course will be held at the Health and Safety Laboratory, Harpur Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire.

18 January 2010

Introduction

The ability to carry out a detailed machinery risk assessment has, for some time, been a key skill required under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regs. Machinery risk assessment is also now explicitly required by the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 that replaced the earlier regulations, of the same name, at the end of December 1999. However many people still struggle to know what is suitable and sufficient to satisfy these regulations.

This training course gives delegates practical hands-on experience of conducting a machinery risk assessment using structured techniques which demystify the process given in BS EN 1050 and its successor EN ISO 14121-1. This course assumes a basic level of understanding of machinery safety such as that given in the machinery safety basics course that takes place on the previous day. Anyone who also needs a thorough understanding of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regs should take this course in combination with the machinery safety basics course held on the previous day. Anyone who needs a through understanding of the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regs, as came into force December 1999, should take this course in combination with the designing and selecting safe machinery course held on the following day.

Course includes

• What is the difference between hazard and risk and other definitions
• Hazard Identification process and techniques
• Risk Estimation process and techniques
• Risk evaluation, what does ALARP mean in practice
• Assessment, handling and control of hazardous substances
• Reasonably foreseeable misuse, an introduction to human factors
• Machine interventions 

• Risk assessment practice

Who should attend?

This course is aimed primarily at machinery users, maintenance engineers, designers and project engineers who need to learn how to carry out risk assessment of existing machinery in use or new machinery in the process of being specified, supplied or under development. This course will also be of benefit to safety professionals who are familiar with the concepts but need to know how machinery risk assessment differs from other workplace safety or risk assessments.

Venue

The course will be run at the HSL laboratory in the spa town of Buxton. Buxton is in the heart of the Peak District and has good links to mainline train stations and Manchester International Airport.

The cost of the course is £350 + VAT per person (includes course notes, lunch and refreshments).

For further information email: training@hsl.gov.uk or contact the Training Unit at HSL directly on 01298 218806.

Details of hotels in the Buxton area can be found at www.visitpeakdistrict.com

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