• Ensure work equipment is constructed or adapted so as to be suitable for the purpose for which it is used or provided.
• In selecting work equipment, consider the working conditions and risks to health and safety in the premises or undertaking as well as any additional risk in using the equipment.
• Ensure the work equipment is used only for those operations and under conditions for which it is suitable.
• Ensure the work equipment is maintained in an efficient state
• Ensure that the use of certain equipment which poses a specific risk is restricted to those given the task of using it and that repairs, modifications, maintenance or servicing is restricted to designated persons trained for this purpose.
• Ensure that all those who use work equipment have adequate information, instruction and training plus written instructions on correct use, foreseeable abnormal situations and the action to be taken.
• Information and instructions to be readily comprehensible.
• Ensure supervisors and managers have received similar adequate training.
• Ensure the measures listed are taken to prevent access to any dangerous part of the machinery or to stop the movement of it before any part of a person enters a danger zone.
• Ensure that risks associated with overturning are minimised by design or fitting of roll-over protection, where reasonably practicable to do so.
• Ensure that lift trucks are subjected to both an initial and routine inspections and records are kept of these inspections.

Measures to be taken in order of priority are:

• Provision of fixed guards
• Other guards or protection devices
• Jigs, holders, push sticks or similar protection appliances
• Provision of information, instruction, training and supervision, so far as is practicable.

Specified hazards are:

• Falls or ejections of articles or substances from work equipment
• Rupture or disintegration of parts of work equipment
• Work equipment catching fire or overheating
• Unintended or premature discharges from work equipment
• Unintended or premature explosion of the equipment or article or substance produced, used or stored in it
• Specific precautions against hazards from equipment associated with high or very low temperature.
• All control systems, so far as is reasonably practicable must be safe.
• Work equipment must be provided with suitable means of isolation from sources of energy.
• Reconnection to energy sources must not expose any person to risk.
• Work equipment must be stabilised by clamping or otherwise, where necessary.
• Suitable and sufficient lighting must be provided in the work area.
• Maintenance operations should be, so far as is reasonably practicable, be undertaken when work equipment is shut down, or without risk to operators and with appropriate precautions being taken.
• Work equipment must be marked in a clearly visible way and incorporates unambiguous warnings.

PUWER 1998 revokes the Woodworking Machinery Regulations and supersedes the Power Press Regulations 1965 and 1972 and the Abrasive Wheel Reulations 1971