Machinery Pre-Use Inspection Checklist

Equipment Identification

Location (Dept; building; room):

Date:

Persons Present:

Any unusual hazards or complicated features?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Where appropriate, emergency shutdown?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Has instruction, in readily comprehensible form (written or verbal) on all hazards, been passed onto all those who use the equipment?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Have any written instructions provided by the manufacturer been passed on to users?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Have all users of the equipment been given adequate training in correct use, risks and precautions? "

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Is a training record kept which verifies this?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Is the equipment being used in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

If it has been adapted, is the adaptation suitable and safe?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Is the equipment used in an appropriate environment? (consider e.g. ventilation, damp, flammable conditions)"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

If the equipment may be moved, is the weight known?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Are the start and stop controls clearly marked?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Are other operating controls, and the contents of any containers, clearly marked?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Are there clear warning notices or markings (e.g. to wear personal protection, restriction on use, list of authorised users) where appropriate?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Electrical safety inspection intervals

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Any safety devices inspection intervals

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Are there records to indicate the above has been complied with?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Is there a system of planned preventive maintenance, including, where appropriate, the periodic replacement or refurbishing of items before they reach the end of their useful life?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Have clear maintenance instructions been given to those responsible for maintaining the equipment? "

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Is protection adequate in relation to:

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Items falling from the equipment?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Items being ejected?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Overturning?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Collapse?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Overheating or fire?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Disintegration?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Is the equipment made stable where appropriate by bolting, clamping or tying?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Is there sufficient general and, where necessary, local lighting?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Is there protection against contact with hot or very cold temperature, so far as appropriate?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"If the possibility of such contact is unavoidable has appropriate instruction and training been given? "

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"In the case of pressurised equipment, is there a written scheme of examination?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

If gas fume or dust is released when the equipment is used, is there:

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Local exhaust ventilation, tested at least annually

• Yes
• No
• N / A

A COSHH specific assessment?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Are all dangerous parts of the machinery guarded?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Are all guards of good construction, adequate strength and well maintained?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Is it difficult to bypass or disable guards?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Can the machinery only be started when a specific labelled start device is used? (N.B. the normal cycle of automated machinery is exempt from this requirement)"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Is it impossible to start the machine just by resetting a safety device?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Is there a readily accessible stop device which stops the machinery in a safe way?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Where appropriate is there a prominent easily accessible emergency stop device?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

Can controls be operated safely and easily?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

"Is there any system of work which ensures that nobody is in a dangerous position when machinery is about to be started?"

• Yes
• No
• N / A

The power fails?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

A control or safety device fails to trip out?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

If the power is isolated does the machinery come to rest safely without the possibility of access to dangerous parts?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

By removing a plug from a socket which is easily visible to the person at risk?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

By locking it off?

• Yes
• No
• N / A

By Whom:

Date for completion: