Work Equipment Audit

Is lifting equipment subject to annual inspection in line with LOLER?

Are gas boilers subject to an annual gas safe inspection?

Are pressure systems subject to annual competent inspection?

Is all work equipment on site used only for operations for which it is suitable? Check for the presence of equipment that is being used or has been adapted to undertake tasks for which it was not deigned.

Where work equipment has a maintenance log, is this completed? This may only apply to more complicated/higher risk items of equipment.

Work equipment exposed to conditions causing deterioration which is liable to result in dangerous situations is inspected at suitable intervals and this is recorded?

Any piece of work equipment that poses a specific risk e.g. pool plant equipment, rotary scrubber, is operated only by suitably trained and supervised staff?

Do staff who use work equipment receive information, instruction, training and supervision proportionate to the complexity and level of risk involved in using it? Where appropriate this is written safe systems of work?

If any items of PPE are required when using the equipment, are these readily available and used by staff?

Operators' competence is periodically assessed and refresher training given?

When not in use, is equipment stored securely as appropriate?

Is there a clear system for quarantining defective equipment and either arranging repair or disposing of it?