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Plant weekly inspection
Checklist · Every week (or as the machine's risk assessment sets)
A competent person's weekly inspection of any machine, beyond the operator's daily check: structure, safety devices, guards, service and the machine's records.
Use it in Sitro: add it to a project and fill it on a phone, free for 14 days.
The law and guidance behind it
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER), Regulation 6 (inspection at suitable intervals, recorded)
- The manufacturer's instructions
The questions
The machine
- Make, model and fleet number
- Where on site
- Hour meter
Checks
- The operator's daily checks done and recorded
- Structure, cab and protective structures sound
- Safety devices, interlocks and alarms work
- Guards in place
- Serviced as the maker says
- Thorough examinations in date (where it lifts)
- Result
Actions
- Anything found that needs putting right (write "None" if nothing)
- Action taken or who it was passed to
Sign-off
- Inspected by
- Date and time
- Signature
A template to adapt to your site, not legal advice.
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