Machinery safety inspections across Derby
Derby machine shops tend to run a mix of ages: a CNC cell installed last year working alongside a manual lathe that predates the guarding standards it should now meet. PUWER does not care how old a machine is. The duty is the same — suitable for the job, safe to use, adequately guarded, properly maintained, and operated by someone trained on it.
That is where the older plant catches people out. A machine that was legal when it was bought is not automatically legal now, and the responsibility to bring it up to standard sits with you as the user rather than with whoever sold it. Interlocks that have been bypassed to speed up a setup, a guard removed for a job three years ago and never refitted, an emergency stop that latches but does not isolate — these are the findings that come up again and again.
A PUWER inspection gives you a machine-by-machine position and a prioritised action list, so the genuinely dangerous items get dealt with immediately and the housekeeping over the following weeks. You also get a documented, defensible inspection interval for each machine, which is the question an HSE inspector asks first.
Inspections we carry out in Derby
Industries we work with locally
Precision engineering
Rail & aerospace supply chain
Automotive workshops
Fabrication & welding
Plastics & packaging
Food production
Areas covered around Derby
We cover Derby and the surrounding industrial areas — Pride Park, Ascot Drive, Sinfin, Spondon, Alvaston, Ilkeston, Ripley, Belper, Heanor and Burton upon Trent.
Also covering
Nottingham · Derby · Leicester · Mansfield · Lincoln · Chesterfield · Loughborough · Newark · Worksop · all areas