Machinery Safety Training Courses
Improve your machinery safety knowledge by attending one of our Machinery Safety Training Courses.
Courses can be held at your company or you can attend one of our open courses held in Swindon.
PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations) place duties upon individuals and companies who own, operate or control work equipment. PUWER also places responsibilities on businesses and organisations whose employees use work equipment, whether owned by them or not.
Our training will help you in meeting your obligations under PUWER.
Download our PUWER Training flyer here.
PUWER Assessor Training
Our IIRSM approved 3-day comprehensive PUWER Assessor training provides you and your technicians and engineers with the knowledge they need to carryout machinery PUWER inspections.
Our training starts by building the knowledge needed to safely carry out PUWER Assessment thru to a detailed study the PUWER Regulations, including what good and bad looks like. Training concludes with a practical PUWER Assessment on a machine.
Throughout the training course, delegates will complete various theory and practical exercises, including testing of a Safety Control System. Delegates who successfully complete the course will receive a Safemach IIRSM Certificate.
Full training pack will be provided to delegates. Delegates can also enjoy a 15% discount on their IIRSM membership.
Training is carried out at our training centre in Swindon, or at your company.
There are a number of hotels and restaurants close to us.
PUWER Assessor Training Itinerary - Day 1 & 2
Day 1:
- Course introduction
- What is PUWER
- PUWER Inspection H&S
- How to conduct a PUWER Assessment
- PUWER Approved Code of Practice (ACoP)
- Health & Safety at Work Act
- PUWER ACoP exercise
- Relationship between the Machinery Directive and PUWER
- Hazard identification exercise.
- Understanding Safety Control Systems.
Day 2:
- EN12100 Risk Assessment & Risk Reduction
- Safety Related Parts of a Control System Exercise
- Study of the PUWER Regulations:
- Requirements of the Regulation
- What good looks like
- What bad looks like
- Control measures
- Completing a PUWER Checklist and Risk Assessment
- Virtual PUWER Assessment exercise
PUWER Assessor Training Itinerary - Day 3
Day 3:
- Practical PUWER Assessment of a machine
- Review of practical PUWER Assessment
- Knowledge test.
PUWER Training Courses Schedule
The following courses are scheduled to be run at our training centre in Swindon.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
- PUWER Assessor: 27th January to 29th January 2026. FULL
- PUWER Assessor: 17th February to 19th February 2026.
- PUWER Assessor: 24th March to 26th March 2026. FULL
- PUWER Assessor: 14th April to 16th April 2026. FULL
- PUWER Assessor: 12th May to 14th May 2026.
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Safemach Training Our Courses
In addition to our PUWER Assessors training course, Safemach also carryout the following courses in Swindon or at your company.
- Introduction to PUWER Training Course – 1 day.
- Machinery Safety Systems (theory & practical) – 2 days.
- CE Marking of machines – 1 day.
- Introduction to machinery safety – 1 day.
Please contact Safemach for more information.
