How to Onboard Plant & Equipment
All plant and assets used on Kent sites must be fit for use and compliant to Work Health and Safety regulations.
To ensure this, plant and assets are to be registered in the Kent Workforce Management System. Upon logging in, you will click the Manage Assets tile and proceed through the steps to register your plant or asset.
How to Onboard Plant and Equipment
Step 1 > Click Manage Assets
Step 2 > Add New Asset
Step 3 > Add New Asset
- Complete the required information for the asset, and select the site it will be going to
- Next select the CREATE ASSET button at bottom of the screen.
Step 4 > Click on Sites & Documents
- Continue to upload all MANDATORY compliance requirements
NOTE: Once all completed – Email confirmation that you have onboarded your People &/or Plant/Equipment to the following applicable people:
Plant/Equipment – [email protected]
What is plant?
Plant is any machinery, equipment, appliance, container, implement and tool. It includes any component, or anything fitted or connected to any of those these. Plant includes items as diverse as lifts, cranes, computers, machinery, conveyors, forklifts, vehicles, power tools, and amusement devices, including scaffolding.
Which plant and assets require registration?
Each item below requires registration to be used on Kent sites:
- All mobile powered plant- earthmoving, tunneling, piling rigs, paving machines, rail
- Motor vehicles
- Heavy vehicles
- Trailers
- Cranes with SWL over one tonne
- Elevating work platforms all types
- Concrete pumping plant, fixed, truck and trailer mounted
- Concrete batching plants
- Generators greater than 10 kva
- Engine driven water pumps greater than 75 mm diameter
- Engine driven welders greater than 250 amps
- Engine driven lighting plants
Which plant and assets do NOT require registration?
Any plant that relies exclusively on manual power or propulsion for its operation, and is designed to be primarily supported by hand, does not need to be registered. Such plant includes drills, saws, vibrating plates, flex drive units, and hand tools.
Plant movements on and off site
Once plant has been registered to site, it can leave and return as its verification is recorded at site entry and exit.
Each time plant or asset returns to site, expired documents, registrations, services or inspections will be flagged. It is the plant supplier’s responsibility to ensure records are maintained to ensure site access is not denied.