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Section 46 of the Health and Safety at Work (General Risk and Workplace Management) Regulations 2016 states: Section 46: duty to ensure young persons do not work at or with machinery

1) A PCBU with management or control of a workplace must ensure, so far as is reasonably practical, that no worker aged under 15 years –

 a) Works at or with any machinery at the workplace or  b) Assists with work at or with any machinery at the workplace

(2) In subclause(1) machinery –    a) Means an engine, motor or other appliance that provides mechanical energy derived from compressed air, the combustion of fuel, electricity, gas, gaseous products, steam, water, wind, or any other source  b) Includes    

 i) Any plant by or to which the motion of any machinery is transmitted and  

 ii) A lifting machine, a lifting vehicle, a machine whose motive power is wholly or partly generated by the human body and a tractor NB: If you require an ‘F’ endorsement on your driver’s license, the minimum age for this is 18yrs.