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LEEA Correspondence Courses: Assignment 2.1
LEEA Correspondence Courses: Assignment 2.1
ASSIGNMENT 2.1
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3. Section 6 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, as amended 1988:
Makes employees responsible for the safety of others whilst at work
Makes employers responsible for the health care of their employees
Requires purchasers to obtain equipment that complies with the relevant European Directives
Requires suppliers to provide information on the safe use of their products
5. Employers are required to provide operatives with training/instruction in the correct use of lifting
equipment:
This should take the manufacturer’s/supplier’s information into account
This is not necessary if the employee has been using the equipment for several years
This is not necessary if loads less than 1 tonne are being lifted
Is only necessary if the HSE inspector for the district instructs the employer
6. The ‘essential safety requirements’ for new lifting equipment are given in:
The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
8. To show its compliance with the relevant Directive, lifting equipment must be:
Marked with its WLL
Painted red if it is alloy steel
Marked with the CE mark
Marked with its serial number
9. When a hoist manufacturer supplies a hoist without controls and suspension for a crane maker to
build into a crane, but which otherwise complies with the Machinery Directive, he must issue:
No documentation required as the final product will be the responsibility of the crane maker
A Test Certificate
A Declaration of Conformity
A Declaration of Incorporation
10. The easiest way for a manufacturer to ensure his products comply with the relevant Directive is to:
Affix the CE mark
Work to Harmonised European Standards
Issue a Declaration of EC conformity
Issue information on the safe use
11. When a user makes an item of lifting equipment for his own use, eg a spreader beam, and has it
tested by a lifting equipment company:
The tester is responsible for issuing an EC Declaration of Conformity & affixing the CE mark
The user is responsible for issuing an EC Declaration of Conformity & affixing the CE mark
The HSE must issue an EC Declaration of Conformity and affix the CE mark
There is no need for an EC Declaration of Conformity or CE mark as it is for his own use
12. The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 require persons who obtain
equipment for others to use at work to:
Ensure it complies with the relevant Directives
Ensure it has been tested and examined
Notify the HSE within 28 days
Notify a competent person
13. The legal duty of an employer to keep work equipment properly maintained is a requirement of:
The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations
The Maintenance of Work Equipment (Safety) Regulations
The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
The Manual Handling Regulations
16. As a result of new legislation introduced in 1998, examination reports for lifting appliances issued
under the Factories Act:
Were invalid
Were no longer be required
Remained valid for the life of the appliance
Remained valid until their normal expiry date
17. The competent person discovering a defect affecting the safety during the thorough examination of
a hand chain block is legally required to:
Send a copy of the report to the enforcing authority (eg HSE)
Enter the details in the register of lifting equipment
Take no action, other than to advise the user
Carry out the immediate repair and return the block to service
19. In new Regulations and standards the term ‘coefficient of utilisation’ means:
The working load limit
The safe working load
The factor of safety
The mode factor
20. In new Regulations and standards, the term ‘lifting accessories’ can be taken as having the same
meaning as:
Lifting appliances, such as mobile gantries
Lifting equipment components, such as a piece of chain, rope or webbing with plain ends
Lifting gear, such as shackles and eyebolts
Lifting machines, such as chain blocks