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THE PRESSURE IS ON
Mark Allen of Espress Test
Mark Allen who is the Executive It may not be apparent,
HSE Report 2022
engineer at Espress Test explained however, that The Pressure
that the Health & Safety Executive System Safety Regulations are a
had produced earlier this year a point of law so the duties of an
report on the "Risk Control for small operator are to simply comply.
pressure vessels (RR1177 (2022))".
Mark continued, "In tests carried out This duty would usually be the
by the HSE, five out of eight boilers responsibility of the user for an
suffered an energetic failure when installed system. Compliance is
these fault conditions were not always that simple though:
deliberately induced. If a catastrophic The regulations state that a
failure occurred in an uncontrolled Written Scheme of Examination JULY/AUGUST. 2023 | ISSUE 31
environment, it is extremely likely that (WSE) needs to be in place
the result would have caused severe before the equipment is used
or fatal injuries to bystanders, and that an examination is
customers, or staff." carried out in line with the WSE.
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