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Industry Guide: Non-Manufacturing
An expandable list of non-manufacturing sites and the typical types of plant and equipment that you might expect to find.
Care Homes
- Autoclaves/sterilisers
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Patient hoists (e.g. bath hoists, patient lifts)
- Stair lifts
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
- Portable electrical apparatus
Dentists, Doctors and Veterinary Surgeries
- Autoclaves/sterilisers
- Air pressure plant (e.g. air receiver on compressor)
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Refrigeration plant (for vaccines/medicines)
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
Educational Establishments
- Steam boilers
- Other steam process plant (e.g. vessels)
- Autoclaves
- Air pressure plant
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Refrigeration plant
- Window cleaning equipment
- Lifting plant (e.g. blocks and tackle, slings, etc.)
- Personnel lifts
- Passenger/goods lifts
- Local exhaust ventialtion plant (e.g. dust and fume extraction)
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
- Power presses
Hotels
- Steam boilers (e.g. canteen boilers)
- Refrigeration plant
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Window cleaning equipment
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
Property Owners and Managing Agents
- Steam Boilers (e.g. canteen boilers)
- Refrigeration plant (air conditioning systems)
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Window cleaning equipment
- Safety equipment (eyebolts)
- Passenger/goods lifts
- Disabled access lifts
- Service lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
Offices
- Refrigeration plant
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Window cleaning equipment
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
Places of Worship
- Steam boilers (e.g. canteen boilers)
- Refrigeration plant
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- General lifting plant (e.g. slings, blocks)
- Window cleaning equipment
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
Note: Some larger churches have workshops associated to them which may have plant and equipment akin to a factory.
Residential
- Refrigeration plant (e.g. air conditioning plant)
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Window cleaning equipment
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
Retail
- Refrigeration plant (e.g. air conditioning, freezers, cold rooms)
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Fork lift trucks
- Pallet trucks
- Window cleaning equipment
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
Theatres and Cinemas
- Steam boilers (e.g. canteen boilers)
- Refrigeration plant
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Window cleaning equipment
- Lifting equipment (e.g. winches, scenery hoists)
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
Warehouses
- Air pressure plant (e.g. air receivers)
- Refrigeration plant
- Hot water heating/supply systems
- Cranes (e.g. overhead travelling)
- Lifting plant (e.g. blocks and tackle, slings, etc.)
- Fork lift trucks
- Order picker
- Pallet trucks
- Passenger/goods lifts
- General electrical/mechanical plant (e.g. motors, pumps)
- Electrical installations (e.g. fixed wiring)
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