Hi All We are having a little debate and would welcome thoughts or opinions As a designer & manufacturer of turbines, we sell, install & commission these machines both onshore & offshore. These are serial produced machines (maybe with very minor bespoke customer additions) that are designed in accordance with the required design standards, including turbine specifc standards about design safety (ventilation, lighting, access, escalators, floor surfaces etc etc). Mostly these turbines are installed in isolated locations. The prime purpose of these machines is to produce electricity to the national grid, however obviously technicians sometimes need to work inside to install, commission, service & maintain, and decommission. Provisions are made into the design for certain aspects, but others simply are unrealistic to include into the physical design e.g. toilets, natural lighting, workstation dimensions etc... Some of these may impact structural integrity of the product itself. Instead other provisions are made in accordance with risk assessments (e.g. providing to our persons drinking water bottles, having toilets readily available within a certain timeframe..) A question has been asked about compliance to the workplace regulations, would these machines be seen as a 'workplace premises', therefore if it mandatory to be compliant 100% to the regulations or is it sufficient to demonstrate in risk assessments that we have done everything reasonably practicable to cover the requirements even if it can not be incorporated into the design.

Great help! Thanks for your quick reply also Have a great weekend Ben