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10.—(1) The employer shall ensure that all workers who use work equipment have available to them adequate health and safety information and, where appropriate, written instructions pertaining to the use of that work equipment.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) the employer shall ensure that any person who supervises or manages the use of work equipment is provided with adequate health and safety information and, where appropriate, written instructions pertaining to the use of that work equipment.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (1) and (2), the information and instructions required by either of those paragraphs shall include information and, where appropriate, written instructions on—
(a)the conditions in which, and the methods by which, the work equipment may be used;
(b)foreseeable abnormal situations and the actions to be taken if such a situation were to occur; and
(c)any conclusions to be drawn from experience in using the work equipment.
(4) The employer shall ensure that every worker is made aware of—
(a)any dangers relevant to him;
(b)work equipment present in the work area or site; and
(c)any changes affecting him, in as much as those changes affect work equipment situated in his immediate work area or site, even if he does not use such equipment directly.
(5) Information and instructions required by this regulation shall be readily available and comprehensible to a worker who is, or may be, about to use the work equipment and to any worker supervising or managing him.
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