PUWER Training Reviews

Reminded me of doing my NEBOSH construction certificate years ago. The course seemed more of an “information dump” and I found it was quite difficult to retain the information. I didn’t like the question format for the most part as the wording is designed to catch you out. I feel like with courses like this particular one you should be able to review your answers before finally submitting your test.

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I’ve just done the eLearning now. Its OK ish. Better than come of the eLearning but I’m not sure its what I had imagined it would cover post the near miss on Cinema. Section 3 is better than the others as it covers controls and guarding. The rest is aimed at the regulation and responsibilities rather than the practical implementation of PUWER.I think you should still do it and see what you think, but approach it from an operational and practical use view point rather than OHSE ‘it would be great if everyone knew the PUWER regs better’ view point.

I have come across some contradictory questions regarding health and safety. For example, one of the questions says (more or less like this) if maintenance could be done on a machine without being completely out of power, true or false, for me it is false. but it turns out that, the answer is true. It is there that it is contradictory, with what is said in health and safety. ALL MACHINES MUST BE DISCONNECTED FROM ALL TYPES OF ENERGY< BEFORE WORKING ON IT.

Like a lot of these courses, they do contain a lot of the completely obvious, and this one was no different.

Videos could have been longer, more joined. Some questions were written in a very ambiguous way ie should you physically test, as opposed to visually and to answer that a physical check was deemed wrong, yet STOP switches have to be checked physically in order that there mechanism works properly. (not exactly how the question was worded but principle of how it was worded)

Some of the questions on the test are misleading, there are multiple short clips resulting in multiple pauses. During one of the slides it talks about what may not be covered but then asks a question in the test. ( The question on 'all work equipment being covered under this regulation') No mentions of the new markings which replace the CE mark following our departure from Europe. (UKCA)