It's vitally important that you inspect your work equipment before use to ensure that your health and safety isn't at risk. Not all work equipment requires an inspection; however, an inspection is necessary for any equipment where significant risk to your health and safety may occur. You should inspect your work equipment if your risk assessment pinpoints any serious risk to the operator and others. Work equipment that requires inspection should not be used unless the operator has been made aware that an inspection has taken place. 

Here at Label Source we have an excellent range of Record Tags that informs the operator when an inspection was made, who by and if the equipment had passed or failed the inspection. These tags are manufactured in semi-rigid polyropylene plastic, and are waterproof, weatherproof, durable and tear resistant. Our record tags are supplied in packs of 10 and can be attached to work equipment using a cable tie, string or wire. These record tags provide safe operational guidelines in the work place and will ensure that the health and safety of your operators and others isn't at risk.

Our range of record labels include:  

Inspection Record Tag

Equipment Inspection Tag

Work Inspection Record Tag

To see our full range of Record Tags, click here.

Any moving machinery or equipment in the workplace has the potential to cause injury to users. Even fully trained operatives following procedures, with fully maintained machines, with prescribed safety features and using appropriate protective clothing and equipment, have to be mindful that things can go wrong.

A whole range of differing injuries can be sustained including:

Entanglement between moving or rotating machinery, whether this be contact with hair, hands, jewellery or clothing. This can include equipment utilising rollers, belts or pulley drives.

Crush injuries from pinch points, or from being struck by moving parts.

Entrapment can result from being ensnared between different parts of the equipment, or between equipment and walls or other objects.

Cut and abrasion injuries can be caused by blades, shears or other sharp pointed component parts.

Electric shock injuries from direct exposure to machinery powered by mains voltages.

Burns and scalds from contact with hot surfaces, or ejected fluids or hot gases.

In the UK between the period, 2010/11 and 2014/15, 20% of all fatalities from accidents through contact with machinery in the manufacturing sector (Riddor). Annually around 70,000 self-reported injuries are recorded annually, and almost 29% of these result in absences of over 7 days duration (Labour Force Survey). The higher incident of above average workplace injuries can be found in firstly, skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades, and secondly, process, plant and machine operatives.

One key area to reinforce the message of vigilance when using such machines, equipment or tooling is to clearly mark the dangers during operation or maintenance and servicing is to use recognised safety signs and machine labels. Label Source has a comprehensive range of such products for use on machinery or their areas of operation. These include; electrical hazard safety signs; lockout products; general hazard warning signs; personal protective safety signs; chemical hazard safety warning signs; and safety labelling.

For more information on these products, together with customised labelling please contact Label Source by e-mail (sales@labelsource.co.uk) or by telephone 0800 3761693 (in UK) or +44 (1443) 842769 (outside UK).

Over the years, we at Label Source have worked with many clients in both the NHS and the private hospital sector. We provide these customers with a range of fit-for-purpose medical equipment labels for hospitals, included custom-printed labels as well as a variety of different items from our standard product ranges.

We have worked with many different departments who have used our medical equipment labels for hospitals, including:

• EBME
• Electronics
• Engineering
• Bio-Medical
• Building Services, Facilities & Estates
• IT & Computer Services

What are our medical equipment labels for hospitals suitable for? 

The labels we supply can be used in the testing, servicing, maintenance and calibration of medical equipment. They are suitable for mechanical, electrical (including PAT testing), and radiation equipment. Additionally, many of the labels we provide are used to identify ownership and improve traceability of medical equipment (as well as plant and ancillary equipment) via serial numbers or barcodes. Our labels can also be used to simply identify the prescribed use of the equipment in question.

All of our medical equipment labels for hospitals are designed to meet the unique challenges that take place in a clinical environment. They are resistant to solvents, chemicals and scratches, with a wipe-clean surface for optimum hygiene.

Browse the Label Source website to find the medical equipment labels for hospitals you need, or get in touch via one of the methods below to discuss your labelling requirements with a member of our team.

• Email:info@labelsource.co.uk
• Telephone (UK only): 0800 3761 693
• Telephone (Rest of the World): 0044 1443 842769

Here are some of the other products we supply to the healthcare sector:

• Health and safety signs (including those manufactured to NHS guideline HTM 65)
• COSHH labels and tapes
• Laboratory labels and tapes
• Magnetic signs for transporting dangerous substances
• Printable labels (also available for thermal transfer printers)
• Write and seal labels

As part of a programme of measures to tackle noise pollution, some 47 types of appliances need to be clearly marked with their decibel output during operation, as part of the Noise Emission Directive 2000/14/EC (The Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Outdoor Regulations, 2001).

These include appliances and equipment powered by diesel or petrol, pneumatic or electrical, for use in construction, in civil engineering, forestry, parks and gardens, to control sound power levels.

Common products to be marked with their noise output levels include lawn mowers, trimmers, chain saws, shredders and chippers; dumpers, excavators, concrete mixers, aerial access platforms and mobile cranes; drills, jack hammers, sanders, arc welders, compactors and refuse collection vehicles.

Label Source has supplied many custom printed labels for product applications, not only including noise emission levels, but also company logos and contact details, CE marking, model numbers or serial numbers. These have been manufactured in a range of pressure sensitive labels in pvc or polyester, and in metals (aluminium or stainless steel), with surface laminates and coatings, all suitable for outdoor use. If you require a quotation please contact us by e-mail (sales@labelsource.co.uk) or by telephone 0800 3761693 (in UK) or +44 1443 842769 (outside UK).

While most of the focus on renewable energy tends to concentrate on solar or wind powered generation, biomass could provide an effective and growing source of low carbon fuel to meet the targets set by the Renewable obligation for England, Wales and Scotland (effective 1/12/15) together with reductions in Greenhouse gases (GHG).

Whereas solar and wind power are reliant totally on suitable weather conditions, which in our climate can be uncertain, output from biomass generation can be controlled more effectively, thus producing more efficient use of resources.

Biomass is the use of plant, animal or vegetable residue for producing electricity (biogas), gas (bio-methane) and transport fuels (biofuels). This process of anaerobic digestion can include slurry, silage, manure, chicken litter, maize, straw, fish oil, apple pomace, cheese making waste and husks from cocoa, cashew, sunflower, and sugar beet etc. This creates green or lean carbon energy.

Apart from supplying the local demand for power, heat or fuel, from residues from agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, these resources can be used more widely. For example, bio-methane (the purified form of biogas on removal of carbon dioxide) can be connected to the gas grid. Also, biofuel can power compression and spark ignition engines, gas turbines, fuel cells and heating appliances.

Bio-fertilisers can be recovered in the form of digestate, to PAS110 standards, and can replace fossil fuel derived fertilisers. This is an environmentally sound and cost effective practice.

Label Source has worked with biomass generators in supplying ranges of pipeline tapes for marking component parts of the digester production process and storage plant, as well as a range of safety and operational signs for the industry. For more information contact us by e-mail sales@labelsource.co.uk or by telephone 0800 3761693 (Freephone UK) or +44 (0) 1443 842769. These products can assist in creating a safe working environment, to prevent workplace accidents, operational malfunctions, or environmental damage in the event of incidents.