Due diligence is the process an end user follows to satisfy themselves that machinery is genuinely CE/UKCA compliant, starting with checking the Declaration of Conformity.
Span of control describes exactly what an emergency stop will actually bring to a halt, which must be clear to the person pressing it.
The UK(NI) indication is a marking that must sit alongside CE marking where a UK notified body has carried out conformity assessment for the Northern Ireland market.
LOLER, the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, adds duties for lifting equipment on top of PUWER, which still applies alongside it.
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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