Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the foundational UK law setting out the general duties employers and employees owe each other for health and safety at work.
EN ISO 13849-1 is the standard for designing and validating the safety-related parts of machine control systems; the yardstick is Performance Level.
A safety laser scanner sweeps a laser across an area and slows or stops the machine when someone enters the zones it has been set to monitor.
Intended use is what a machine was designed and assessed to do, as stated by its manufacturer in the instructions and technical documentation.
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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