CE marking is a manufacturer’s own declaration that machinery meets the EU’s essential health and safety requirements.
For most machinery it is self-certification, evidenced by a risk assessment, technical file and Declaration of Conformity, with notified bodies involved only for listed high-risk types. Great Britain now recognises CE marking indefinitely, and a word of caution from the audit floor: the mark alone is no proof the machine is actually safe.
An original equipment manufacturer is the company that designs and builds machinery, often relying on specialist compliance support to navigate CE, UKCA and PUWER requirements.
Proof load testing applies a load above the rated working load to demonstrate that a lifting accessory or fabrication performs safely under the required conditions.
EN ISO 10218 is the standard for industrial robot safety, deriving the Performance Level of a robot’s safety functions from a risk assessment against EN ISO 12100.
For nearly two decades, the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) has been the backbone of machinery safety compliance across Europe.
Introduction Machinery is now software-defined, connected, and increasingly autonomous. The Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 treats software failures as
A question we hear regularly from clients is which assessment do they actually need for their machinery —
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