EN ISO 13849-1 is the standard for designing and validating the safety-related parts of machine control systems; the yardstick is Performance Level.
It combines architecture categories with reliability data, mean time to dangerous failure and diagnostic coverage, to show a safety function achieves its required PL. The route is risk assessment, design, validation, then documentation to prove it.
UKCA marking is Great Britain’s post-Brexit conformity mark, introduced in 2021 as the domestic equivalent of CE marking.
EN ISO 13850 is the standard that sets the design principles for emergency stop functions: actuation, reset, priority and span of control.
A machinery safety audit checks your machines against PUWER and current standards and ends in a prioritised, risk-rated action plan.
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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