Protection against Specified Hazards of Work Equipment

The employer must prevent or, where prevention is not reasonably practicable, adequately control the exposure of work equipment users to:

• any article or substance falling or being ejected from the equipment;
• rupture or disintegration of parts of the equipment;
• the equipment catching fire or overheating;
• the unintended or premature discharge of any article, or of any gas, dust, liquid, vapour or other substance, which is produced, used or stored in the equipment;
• the unintended or premature explosion of the equipment or any article or substance produced, used or stored in it.

In meeting these requirements the employer must include:

• where appropriate, measures to minimise the effects of the hazards as well as measures to reduce the likelihood of the hazard occurring;
• so far as is reasonably practicable, measures other than personal protective equipment or information, instruction, training and supervision.