PLATE 16 OF 20
Use, installation and maintenance.
The workplace side: installation, putting into service, inspection, and maintenance over the machine life.
Pillar guide
Installation and putting into service: Installation as a lifecycle phase with its own hazards, checks, and records, distinct from manufacture.
Supporting guides
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Workplace inspection of machinery | Inspection duties that sit alongside product duties, and how the two layers are kept distinct. |
| Maintenance planning for safety | A maintenance plan built from the risk assessment, the instructions, and the safeguarding design. |
| Isolation and stored energy | Isolating a machine and releasing stored energy before intervention, as a designed method. |
| Spare parts and safety | Replacement parts that match the assessed specification, and why an equivalent looking part may not be equivalent. |
| Training for machine users | Training built from instructions and risk assessment, covering normal work and foreseeable intervention. |
| Supervision and safe use | Supervision that checks safe use in practice, not just the existence of instructions. |
| Ageing machinery and safety | Wear, corrosion, and obsolete parts over a long machine life, and how ageing is managed. |
| Second users and transferred machines | A machine transferred to a new user, with its instructions, history, and maintenance record going with it. |
| Decommissioning a machine | Taking a machine out of service safely, including energy release, heavy parts, and disposal of hazardous materials. |
| A machine history record | One record per machine that follows it from installation through maintenance, modification, and decommissioning. |