The EMC Directive 2014/30/EU sets the rules for how equipment must be designed to limit the electromagnetic disturbance it emits and to withstand the disturbance it receives.
Risk reduction is the process of driving machinery risk down to an acceptable level; design measures come first and PPE comes last.
The safe working load is another term for the rated maximum load a piece of lifting equipment can lift, used interchangeably with WLL.
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.
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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