- Health and safety at work with energy equipment - new regulation (3)
From September 26, 2020, a new regulation on health and safety at work with energy devices is in force. It contains a lot of information and requirements that must be met by both employees and the employer. The scope of the employer's responsibility has increased and the essence of having an operating manual has been emphasized. The regulation also contains a lot of clarifications, seemingly obvious, but important from the legal point of view. It is therefore worth taking a moment to study the changes carefully and start implementing them. Especially that they contribute to increasing safety in workplaces.
- New definitions introduced into the regulation
- Operating instructions
- Authorization to perform actions
- Work in the vicinity of live equipment
- Works with particular risk to health or life
- Coordination of works and admission to works
- Safe work instruction
- Readers' questions
- Joint work on energy devices (11)
The question: what should be done in a situation when various economic entities, which are related (or not) with each other by capital, have registered business activity under one physical address. How then to fulfill the obligations resulting from the new regulations?
- Installation of photovoltaic panels and the rights resulting from the new regulation (12)
Question: Is work related to the assembly of photovoltaic panels and their connection to the grid subject to the regulation on health and safety at work with energy devices? Do they require the development of operating instructions, issuing written orders to perform these works?
- Application of the new regulation to MV transformers and MV and LV switching stations (13)
Question: Does the new regulation apply to energy equipment, such as Sn transformers and MV and LV switching stations, compressor rooms, cooling installations, boiler rooms?
- Authorization to perform activities or maintenance works on energy devices (14)
Question: Due to the entry into force of the new regulation, according to the new definition of an authorized person, should each employee be prepared a written authorization in the event of an inspection, e.g of the National Labor Inspectorate? Where, then, should the authorizations be kept?
- Qualifications to operate a seam welding machine (15)
Question: What qualifications should an employee operating a seam welding machine with a capacity of over 100 kVa have?
- Auxiliary works on energy devices (16)
Work on energy devices can be divided into operating and auxiliary. The latter type of work has been regulated in an open catalog contained in the regulations. What does this mean in practice?
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