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Notices served

Notice 313258979 served against Brookeswood Joinery Limited on 22/03/2023
Notice Type Improvement Notice
Description 1 x Prohibition Notice and 4 x Improvement Notice served, Prohibition Notice, serial notice no. PN/BJL/NW/16/03/23/1 The guard does not prevent access to the dangerous part of the machine, namely the rotating blade. It has been adjusted so that it does not fully cover the blade when cutting operations have ceased. x 4 Improvement Notices, 1) Serial Notice no. IN/BJL/NW/220323/01 - You have failed to ensure that sliding table of the Guilliet Multicell Tenonor, serial number 21 66565 D 786 is suffciently guarded to prevent access by the operator or other employees to rotating cutting tool. 2) Serial Notice no. IN/BJL/NW/220323/02 - You have failed to ensure that your single ACM CA30 sliding table saw is fitted with a braking device that brings the saw blade of the machine to a complete stop within 10 seconds. 3) Serial Notice no. IN/BJL/NW/220323/03 - You have failed to ensure that your single fixed multi branch local exhaust ventillation system, which is provided as an engineering contol to reduce employee exposure to wood dust, which is a substance hazardous to health, has been subject to a thorough examination and test by a competent person in the last 14 months. 4) - Serial Notice no. IN/BJL/NW/220323/04 - You have failed to ensure that your employees who are exposed to wood dust, which is a respiratory sensitiser and a substance hazardous to health, are under a suitable programe of health surveillance.
Compliance Date 08/05/2023 Revised Compliance Date 19/06/2023
Result Complied with

Breaches involved in this Notice

Location of Offence
Address Leek/Brookeswood Joinery Limit
Fould Farm
Meerbrook Road
LEEK
Staffordshire
ST13 8SQ
England
Region Midlands
Local Authority Staffordshire Moorlands
Industry Manufacturing
Main Activity 16290 - WOOD/CORK/STRAW/PLAITING PROD
Type of Location Fixed
HSE Details
HSE Group FODOP8GP35 HSE Directorate Field Operations Division
HSE Area HSE Division West Midlands
Updated: 2020-03-04