2 - General Safety Instructions
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Article 2
Definitions
For the purposes of this Directive, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
CHAPTER II
EMPLOYERS’ OBLIGATIONS
Article 3
General obligations
1. The employer shall take the measures necessary to ensure that the work equipment made available to workers in the
undertaking or establishment is suitable for the work to be carried out or properly adapted for that purpose and
may be used by workers without impairment to their safety or health.
In
selecting
the work equipment which he proposes to use, the employer shall pay attention to the
specific
working
conditions and
characteristics
and to the hazards which exist in the undertaking or establishment, in particular at
the workplace, for the safety and health of the workers, and any additional hazards posed by the use of the work
equipment in question.
2. Where it is not possible in this way fully to ensure
that
work equipment can be used by workers without risk to
their safety or health, the employer shall take appropriate measures to minimize the risks.
Article 5
Inspection of work equipment
1. The employer shall ensure that where the safety of work equipment depends on the installation conditions, it shall
be subject to an initial inspection (after installation and before first being put into service) and an inspection after
assembly at a new site or in a new location by competent persons within the meaning of national laws and/or
practices, to ensure that the work equipment has been installed correctly and is operating properly.
2. In order to ensure that health and safety conditions are maintained and that deterioration liable to result in
dangerous situations can be detected and remedied in good time, the employer shall ensure that work equipment
exposed
to
conditions causing such deterioration is subject to:
3. The results of inspections shall be recorded and kept at the disposal of the authorities concerned. They must be
kept for a suitable period of time.
When work equipment is used outside the undertaking it shall be accompanied by physical evidence that the last
inspection has been carried out.
4.
Member
States shall determine the conditions under which such inspections are made.
(a) ‘work equipment’: any machine, apparatus, tool or installation used at work;
(b) ‘use of work equipment’: any activity involving work equipment such as starting or stopping the equipment, its
use, transport, repair, modification, maintenance and servicing, including, in particular, cleaning;
(c) ‘danger zone’: any zone within or around work equipment in which an exposed worker is subject to a risk to his
health or safety;
(d) ‘exposed worker’: any worker wholly or partially in a danger zone;
(e) ‘operator’: the worker or workers given the task of using work equipment.
(a) periodic inspections and, where appropriate, testing by competent persons within the meaning of national
laws and/or practices;
(b) special inspections by competent persons within the meaning of national laws and/or practices each time
that
exceptional circumstances which are liable to jeopardize the safety of the work equipment have occurred,
such as modification work, accidents, natural phenomena or prolonged periods of inactivity.
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