(1) An employer shall ensure that a planing machine is not used for cutting any rebate, recess, tenon or mould unless the cutter is effectively guarded.
(2) An employer shall ensure that every planing machine for surfacing is -
(a) fitted with a cylindrical cutter block,
(b) designed and constructed so as to be capable of adjustment so that the clearances between the cutters and the front edge of the delivery table, and the gap between the feed table and the delivery table, are as small as practicable having regard to the operation being performed and a machine which is not so adjusted is not used for surfacing,
(c) subject to paragraph (11), provided with a bridge guard which -
(i) is strong and rigid,
(ii) has a length not less than the full length of the cutter block,
(iii) has a width not less than the diameter of the cutter block,
(iv) is constructed so as to be capable of easy adjustment in both a vertical and horizontal direction,
(v) is mounted on the machine in a position whic
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