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IS D&TA Training Essential?

see https://www.hse.gov.uk/education/topics.htm:

“Employers must ensure that all employees are provided with adequate health and safety training when they start work."

Ongoing training must also be provided in response to changes, such as:

  • meeting the needs of new students

  • the identification of additional risks

  • the use of new or modified equipment and/or

  • new job responsibilities

  • a change in the needs of existing students

Workshop Machines and proceses

  • Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (9) says  Employers must ensure that all persons who use work equipment have received adequate training for the purposes of health and safety.    This a regulation under the law - an accident resulting from failure to comply on high risk equipment eg. Table Saw will result in a criminal prosecution for the employer.

  • BS 4163:2021 says “Learners should only work in a high-risk area when it is fully under the control of a person competent to work in the area (i.e. a person with demonstrated competency through the D&T Association training Scheme)’   This a Code of practice approved by the HSE - an accident resulting from failure to comply may result in a civil prosecution for the employer

  • When a RIDDOR accident occurs in a school, the HSE attend and carry out an extensive investigation which always includes checking that staff training is correct and up-to-date.  The employer is almost always prosecuted following a RIDDOR accident.

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