Posted By William ????? Never heard of it myself, is this in the UK sector? Am I the only one who thinks someone is winding you up? Are you sure they don't mean SEWER, I may be wrong but you may be the victim of a wind up.

Posted By Ian Gardner "Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (SMSR)" Well, that's not SUWER, is it?! It's SMSR, as you yourself have stated!! A quick Google search gives quite a few hits for the regs you give above, but none for 'SUWER' in regards to UK legislation! Don't expect sensible answers if you can't ask sensible questions.

Posted By Jane Blunt There are three sets of regulations: Supply of machinery (safety) regulations 1992, SI 3073 amendment 1994, SI 2063 amendment 2005, SI 831 All regulations since 1987 can be obtained in full text from the Office of Public Sector Information site, http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ Search via the following path: legislation > original > UK Statutory Iinstruments > choose the relevant year > choose the relevant SI number Jane

Posted By William You learn something new every day! A bit before my time and to be honest I had never heard of them before, will look them up though.

Posted By Heather Collins Tabs - I can't see that one either! To the OP. The two bits of legislation are intended for different things and one cannot "replace" the other. PUWER covers all work equipment. SMSR only covers "machines". PUWER is about risk assessment to ensure that WE is suitable and sufficient for the use to which it is being put. SMSR is about building machines that comply with the EC Machinery Directive. PUWER applies to the user. SMSR applies to the manufacturer, supplier or importer into the EU. Obviously it's more complex than that but that's a basic outline. So I have never heard of SUWER and if they mean SMSR - be careful it's not at all the same thing. Mind you the ultimate aim of both is to have safe machinery!

Posted By Kevan Daber All, Many thanks for your pro active responses,having been the instigator of this forum regarding (SEWER)? I found out later that the Acronym is SUWE(Safe Use Work Equipment) It is an in house policy adopted by one said company to cover the EC Directive (AUWED 1995)PUWER 98 and the Merchant Shipping and Fishing vessels (Safe Use of Work Equipment)Regulations 2006 the company having global intrests .Statement The said company had developed this business practice manual (SUWE)which set company standard in compliance with all legislative requirements and in their eyes provided standardisation accross all its business activities Once again those that provided response thanks