Urgent wood and furniture sector update

As a result of recent HSE inspections, this urgent guidance has been issued by the Wood Safety Group and is aimed at ALL sectors (including education providers, prisons, maintenance departments) using woodworking machinery.

The HSE are actively carrying out inspections in the Wood Sector at the moment.  A number of machines (including bandsaw, circular saw, crosscut saw, chop saw, wall saw, surface planer, overhead router, CNC router or fixed sanding machine) now require users to wear RPE, regardless of the efficiency of their LEV.

Click here to download the Wood Safety Group guidance

Or visit the HSE Website, where there are additional resources, which are free to download and use.