Synopsis
Are you a Plant Engineer, Certificated Engineer, Candidate preparing to write GCC exams, Employee working with Machinery, SHE Representative, member of the OHS committee, Technician, Technologist or Maintenance manager? This course is for you!
The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS Act) requires you to ensure your machinery is safe and without risk to your employees. Appropriate standards should be applied when employees are using plants or machinery. All Managers shall ensure that the Section 16(2) assignees and all the other OHS Act appointees appointed by them receive training regarding their statutory responsibilities and requirements and that they conform to those requirements.
This three-day course aims to equip participants with the necessary technical and legal knowledge of the General Machinery Regulations (GMR). It also covers OHSAct, EMR & DMR related to GMR 2(1) and GMR2(7) appointments. You can’t afford to miss this opportunity.
Workshop outline
MODULE 1 INTRODUCTION
- Overview of Occupational health and safety act
- Aim of OHS Act
- General Duties of employers and employees at workplace
- Health & Safety Representatives and Committees
16.1 and 16.2 Appointments
- Duties of CEO – Section 16 of the act,
- Acts or omissions by employees or mandataries – section 37(2),
- GMR 2 as a common denominator issue with section 16 and section 37(2)
Incident investigation, reporting and recording (OHSAct, GAR, GMR)
Technical Overview of Machinery / Plants
Overview of Electrical machinery regulation (EMR)
- Overview of electrical machinery such as Switchgears, Switchboard, Control gear transformers, Electric fence, Overhead power line etc
- Definition of terms
- Personal protective equipment
- Notices
- Requirements of Switchgear, transformer, control gear and switchboards
- Overhead power line crossings
- Requirements of Portable electric lights
- Earthing requirement of electrical machinery
- Requirements for Electrical machinery in hazardous location
- Electric Fence
- Exercises
- Overview of Driven Machinery regulation (DMR)
- Overview of driven machinery
- Requirements of double handed controls of press
- Safety precautions to take when installing a full-revolution clutch press
- Safety requirements of overhead gantry crane
- Performance test of Crane
- Requirements for a jib crane
- Methods of safeguarding hydraulic press
- Requirements for a lifting machine
- Saw blade of a power-driven circular saw
- Specific requirements of lifting machine
- General Machinery Regulation (GMR)
- Definitions
- Overview of plants and machinery
- Determination of power generated by machinery and other power derived from other sources
- Determination of maximum demand where machinery is used solely for the distribution of electricity
GMR 2.1 and GMR 2.7 Appointments
- Appointment of GMR 2(1) Supervisor of Machinery
- Appointment of GMR 2(7)(a) Supervisor of Machinery Assistant
- What employer must do after appointing a competent person – GMR 2(9)
- Machinery that need not a supervisor – GMR 2(10)
- Exemption application – GMR 2(11)
- GMR 4 – Shiftmans Appointment
- Checklist for supervision of machinery
- What to do when appointed
Fundamentals of Safeguarding of machinery
- Where Mechanical Hazards Occur
- Hazardous Mechanical Motions and Actions
- Requirements for Safeguards
- Nonmechanical Hazards
- Protective Clothing and Personal Protective Equipment
- Overview of methods of safeguarding
- Checklist for safeguarding of machinery
Machinery Operation, Maintenance and Repair
- Operation of machinery of machinery
- Working on moving or electrically alive machinery GMR 5
- Devices to start and stop machinery GMR
Assessment