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When the use of work equipment is likely to involve a specific risk to the safety or health of workers, the employer shall take
the measures necessary to ensure that:
(a) the use of work equipment is restricted to those persons given the task of using it;
(b)
in the case of repairs, modifications, maintenance or servicing, the workers concerned are specifically designated
to carry out such work.
1. Without prejudice to Article 10 of Directive 89/391/EEC, the employer shall take the measures necessary to ensure that
workers have at their disposal adequate information and, where appropriate, written instructions on the work
equipment used at work.
2.
The information and the written instructions shall contain at least adequate safety and health information concerning:
(a) the conditions of use of work equipment;
(b) foreseeable abnormal situations;
(c) the conclusions to be drawn from experience, where appropriate, in using work equipment.
Workers shall be made aware of dangers relevant to them, work equipment present in the work area or site, and any changes
affecting them, inasmuch as they affect work equipment situated in their immediate work area or site, even if they do not
use such equipment directly.
3. The information and the written instructions shall be comprehensible to the workers concerned.
4. Without prejudice to Article 12 of Directive 89/391/EEC, the employer shall take the measures necessary to ensure that:
(a) workers given the task of using work equipment receive adequate training, including training on any risks which
such use may entail;
(b) workers referred to in Article 6(b) receive adequate specific training.
Article 6
Work equipment involving specific risks
Article 8
Informing workers
Article 9
Training of workers
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