A competent person is someone with the practical and theoretical knowledge and experience needed to carry out a specific safety-critical task, such as a LOLER thorough examination.
Machinery safety is the discipline of keeping people from being hurt by the machines they operate and maintain, through design, guarding and safe use.
Span of control describes exactly what an emergency stop will actually bring to a halt, which must be clear to the person pressing it.
Conformity assessment is the process a manufacturer follows to demonstrate machinery meets the law before placing it on the market.
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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