Machinery Safety Training Course (Classroom) - Risk Assessment & UK Machinery Regulations
Gain the knowledge and confidence to assess machinery risks, manage safety documentation, and meet your legal duties under UK Machinery Regulations. This one-day classroom course covers essential principles of machinery safety, including conformity with CE/UKCA requirements, harmonised standards like BS 12100, relevant aspects of PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations), and practical steps for maintaining a safe working environment.
Led by experienced industry tutors, this course is ideal for those involved in engineering, operations, maintenance, or health and safety roles across manufacturing settings.
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Why Take This Machinery Safety Course?
Machinery safety is more than just a compliance exercise; it’s a critical part of protecting your people, reducing operational risk, and keeping your business moving.
This course is designed to help you understand what the law expects and how to apply it in real-world factory and engineering environments.
Understand Your Legal Duties Under Machinery Regulations and PUWER
Get clarity on how UK Machinery Regulations and CE/UKCA requirements, and relevant PUWER responsibilities, apply to your equipment, processes, and documentation.
Build a Safer Working Environment
Learn how to identify and reduce machinery-related risks that can lead to serious incidents, downtime, and enforcement action.
Gain a Practical Framework for Compliance
Leave with actionable knowledge you can apply immediately, from technical file creation to hazard elimination and safer maintenance practices.
What You’ll Learn in the Machinery Safety Course
This course blends regulatory knowledge with practical application, helping you assess machinery risk, manage safety documentation, and ensure compliance with UK safety laws.
It’s built for real-world factory, engineering, and manufacturing environments, not generic theory.
Key Modules Covered
- Understanding UK Machinery Regulations: Clarify your legal duties under the Supply of Machinery Regulations 2008, and how CE/UKCA Marking fits into your safety responsibilities.
- Risk Assessment to BS 12100: Learn how to identify hazards, estimate risk, and apply effective control measures using the internationally recognised BS 12100 standard.
- Designing Safer Machinery: Explore how design choices, including guarding, safety controls, and user interaction, influence risk and long-term compliance.
- Conformity Assessment & Technical Documentation: Understand the requirements for CE/UKCA Marking and what must be included in your technical file to demonstrate compliance.
- Managing Machinery Safety On Site (incl. PUWER Considerations): Discover how to apply what you’ve learned through inspections, checklists, in-house procedures, and ongoing team training with reference to PUWER duties around maintenance, guarding, and safe use of machinery.
What You’ll Take Away
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Confidently assess and reduce machinery-related risks in your workplace
- Understand your responsibilities under UK Machinery Regulations and CE/UKCA compliance
- Apply the BS 12100 framework to real-world machinery scenarios
- Support your organisation with safer machinery design, modification, and operation
- Produce and manage technical documentation that aligns with legal requirements
Who Should Attend the Machinery Safety Course?
This classroom-delivered course is ideal for those working with, designing, maintaining, or managing machinery in manufacturing or engineering environments, especially where legal compliance and risk control are essential.
Health & Safety Officers and Advisors
Responsible for ensuring machinery safety aligns with wider organisational H&S policies and legal duties.
Engineering & Maintenance Personnel
Hands-on staff involved in machinery setup, modification, or repair who need to understand risk, control measures, and documentation.
Production & Operations Managers
Those overseeing machinery use on the shop floor, balancing safety, output, and regulatory compliance.
Project Managers or Site Leads
Anyone managing installations, upgrades, or new equipment implementation where machinery safety needs to be embedded early.
Course Details & Certification
This classroom-based course is delivered in person by experienced Make UK tutors at our dedicated training centres. You’ll receive practical, actionable training designed to meet the real-world challenges of machinery safety in manufacturing.
Duration, Assessment & Entry Requirements
- Format: One-day, in-person course
- Location: Make UK Technology Hub, Aston, Birmingham (or in-centre nationwide)
- Assessment: No formal exam, delegates complete group activities and tutor-led exercises
- Entry Requirements: No prerequisites, but a basic understanding of workplace safety is helpful
Certification & Accreditation
- Delegates will receive a Make UK Machinery Safety Certificate of Attendance
- The course is aligned with BS 12100 principles and the current UK Machinery Regulations
- Helps demonstrate compliance with the Supply of Machinery Regulations 2008 and supports CE/UKCA readiness
How Machinery Safety Training Helps You Reduce Risk and Drive Operational Excellence
This course isn’t just about compliance; it’s about building confidence, reducing risk, and creating safer, more efficient workplaces. Whether you’re hands-on with equipment or overseeing operations, you’ll leave with tools that make a tangible difference.
Strengthen Legal Compliance and Reduce Liability
Understand the Machinery Regulations, CE/UKCA marking, and documentation requirements, so your team can stay compliant and audit-ready.
Improve Machinery Safety and Minimise Downtime
Learn how to identify and control risks before they lead to incidents, keeping production lines running and teams protected.
Embed a Safety-First Culture Across Your Operations
Bring back clear, actionable insights to help improve inspection processes, maintenance routines, and team behaviours on the shop floor.
About Make UK: Trusted Machinery Safety Training for UK Manufacturers
With over 130 years of support for the UK’s industrial sector, Make UK delivers training that combines deep regulatory expertise with real-world relevance.
Our tutors have first-hand experience in machinery risk, engineering controls, and compliance, so you get insight that goes beyond the textbook.
Delivered by Industry-Experienced Tutors
Learn from experts who’ve worked in operational and engineering roles, not just classroom instructors.
Tailored to the Manufacturing Environment
Our training is built around the risks, equipment, and standards found on factory floors and in engineering workshops.
Trusted by 2,500+ UK Manufacturers
From SMEs to global brands, organisations across the UK rely on Make UK for safety, compliance, and workforce development.
FAQs
Yes, general H&S training won’t cover the specific legal duties, risk controls, and documentation required for machinery safety. This course focuses on the unique hazards and regulations around operating, modifying, or maintaining machinery.
Yes. While it doesn’t provide product certification, it helps you understand what CE/UKCA marking involves, including documentation, conformity assessment, and legal obligations under the Machinery Regulations.
Absolutely. The course is designed for anyone who works with machinery, including maintenance engineers, technicians, and operational leads. It focuses on risk, control measures, and real-world application.
Yes, completing this course shows that your team is trained in machinery safety best practices aligned with UK regulations. It supports your duty of care and can be part of your documented risk management process.
No, the course includes group exercises, case studies, and tutor-led discussions, but there’s no formal written test. Delegates receive a Make UK certificate upon completion.
Yes, the course includes relevant elements of PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998), particularly those related to machinery maintenance, guarding, and safe operation. For more in-depth PUWER training, Make UK also offers dedicated courses.