Posted By James M HSWA 1974 clearly states IITS. If you read someone a procedure and you declare it to be adequate training and things go wrong, you must stand up in court and defend yourself. I would recomend training by a competent trainer. Give me an email if I can assist further. My company carries out training on various workplace equipment. regards Jim

Posted By ian mcnally Hi Steve, I can see where you’re coming from and accept your procedures and written instruction for changing and using the wheels could be great. In any business the problem may really come home to roost if the person using the equipment became injured. As I expect you know, the Employer has a duty to ensure their employees are trained and competent, plenty of legislation covers this and I shan’t insult your intelligence by quoting it. Without training records it might be difficult to demonstrate your employee was trained to an appropriate level. Even the best safety procedures and written instructions may be hard pushed to prove there was a safe system of work as soon as somebody gets hurt and this is before the good old no win no fee brigade got involved! The Construction Health and Safety Group info@chsg.co.uk carry out courses on abrasive wheels as do many construction safety advisors / consultants. If you are looking for some training material I can let you have some. I would strongly recommend that any trainer on this subject has experience with the equipment themselves. It may be worth getting a copy of HSG 17. Sorry this may not be the sort of response you banked on! Best of luck Ian