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Work equipment definition

What does Work equipment mean? In legal practice, work equipment means any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation used by an employee or other worker in the course of work. It ranges from heavy plant and lifting equipment to office equipment such as computers, and includes ladders, power tools and workplace vehicles. Equipment counts as work equipment when used at work regardless of who owns or supplies it. The term is defined in legislation: in Great Britain by the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER), in Northern Ireland by the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999, and in Ireland...

Work Equipment Accident Claims: PUWER 1998, Employers’ Liability (Defective Equipment) Act 1969 and Common Law After ERRA 2013 s 69—Duties, Defences and Case Law

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Practice notes

This Practice Note reviews the Provision and Use of work equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 1998), SI 1998/2306, together with the common law obligation to provide and maintain safe work equipment. PUWER 1998 outlines employers’ responsibilities for all machinery, appliances, apparatus, tools and installations used at work. Under PUWER, employers must supply appropriate work equipment, keep that equipment properly maintained, arrange for it to be examined following installation or assembly, and give users suitable information and training on its use...

Post 1 October 2013

On 1 October 2013, section 69 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 took effect. For workplace accidents occurring from that date, civil liability no longer arises purely from a breach of a health and safety statutory duty unless the relevant regulation expressly provides for it. The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 1998), SI 1998/2306, do not create such liability. In these circumstances, claimant practitioners will need to rely on a breach of a regulation as supportive evidence for a negligence claim...

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