Equipment Guards on running/live equipment must be fitted where Required, Secured, and not Removed unless personnel are both Trained and Authorised. Guards have been located where there is a foreseeable risk of contact between us and the moving part potentially giving rise to injury...

1. Health, Safety and Environment
Weekly Safety Review 24 SIMS awaiting
First Aid Recordable
Managers Comments
No. injuries ytd 5 0
Injury rate ytd 0 0
No. days worked since 249 Injury
last OSHA recordable (16/7/09) Performance
Issue Date : 23rd March 2010 INJURY
No. days worked since 901
FREE
last RIDDOR injury (5/10/07)
Guards …….. WEEK
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Equipment Guards on running/live equipment must be fitted where
Required, Secured, and not Removed unless personnel are both
Trained and Authorised
Guards have been located where there is a foreseeable risk of contact
between us and the moving part potentially giving rise to injury
The Legislation - PUWER (Provision and Use of Work
Equipment Regulations)
The Common Sense - We need Guards to keep People and
Hazards apart !
The Concern - There were a number of guarding events
last week ……….
• Guards were removed from ash
conveying equipment and left off when
the equipment was back on line
• Guards were left off a number of soot
blowers – exact status was not clear to
others in the area that they were under
maintenance and isolated
Guards featuring interlocks prevent equipment being operated when
the guard is not in place or is unsecured
What you need to do if you work with machinery ……
Do not attempt to work on running machinery unless you are trained
and authorised to do so – see MP 8522 for more information
Do not remove guards unless the machine is effectively isolated, and
you are authorised to do so by way of a permit
Fixed guards must be in place and secure
Check that expected guards are in place on machines you work with
If you remove a guard on a machine which is isolated, make sure the
guard is correctly and securely re-fitted before the permit is signed off
See over the page for the HSE view on the Importance of Guards

2. Extracts from PUWER ’98 …….
‘Employers have to ensure that measures are in place to prevent
employees from being at risk from dangerous parts of machinery. Two
measures are essential for avoiding risk and, depending on the situation,
employers must implement at least one. They are:
• prevent access to the dangerous part; OR
• stop the dangerous part from moving before a person can come close
to it.
Guards or protection devices should meet a number of standards
that are largely common sense and are detailed in relevant national
and international standards
They (guards) must be:
• well constructed;
• made of sound materials;
• strong enough to do the job they are meant to do. ‘