Glossary · Compliance & safety

PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations)

UK regulations requiring work equipment to be suitable for its purpose, properly maintained, and used only by trained, competent staff.

PUWER 1998 is broader than LOLER — it covers essentially all work equipment, not just lifting gear, and requires that it's maintained in an efficient state, inspected where deterioration could create a risk, and that operators are properly trained on it. E-stop function tests and guard inspections on automated lines typically fall under PUWER.

The regulation doesn't specify fixed inspection intervals the way LOLER does for most categories — it requires a documented risk-based approach, which in practice means the maintenance programme itself has to make the case for why an interval is adequate, not just follow a generic industry number.

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