Safe use of work equipment. Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998

Approved Code of Practice and guidance.

This is the third edition of the PUWER 98 ACOP and has been amended and updated to reflect the latest legislation. References throughout have been updated to include the most recent publications available, and obsolete information has been removed. The Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) and substance of the guidance remains unchanged.

This book is for anyone with responsibility directly or indirectly for work equipment and its use, for example employers, employees, the self-employed and those who hire work equipment.

PUWER 98 applies to the provision of all work equipment, including mobile and lifting equipment. It applies to all workplaces and work situations where the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSW Act) applies and extends outside Great Britain to certain offshore activities in British territorial waters and on the UK Continental Shelf.