Posted By MetalMan What sort of inspection are you going to be carrying out Malcolm? Not trying to teach you to suck eggs etc. but all sorts of things to check in a woodworking shop, puwer/dsear/coshh to name a few.

Posted By Ron Hunter Or fork out £50+ for relevant guide from British Woodworking Federation? http://www.bwf.org.uk/th...nforming.cfm?area=guides

Posted By Salus don't forget your LEV

Posted By Pete48 Malcolm, and above all, remember that this is a specialist area where experience is very important. If you do not have any experience in this area, then make sure you limit any report to your level of competence. You can go and ask questions about how H&S has been assessed and managed but will you be able to determine the acceptance/suitability of any responses with regard to technical matters such as acceptable safeguards etc? Reference to the documents noted so far will give you a good base to use to challenge any responses that do not meet the criteria they outline. I have no wish to frighten you away from doing the inspection or to start another discussion about "experts" or "competence". Just be very cautious about the lack of experience that you freely admit. There are successful prosecutions on record of people who have "inspected" or "assessed" woodworking workshops and not identified unsafe matters thus leading to later accidents that could have been prevented with proper controls.