The Health and Safety Executive is the UK regulator responsible for enforcing workplace health and safety laws, providing guidance, and inspecting the workplace.
EN ISO 10218 is the standard for industrial robot safety, deriving the Performance Level of a robot’s safety functions from a risk assessment against EN ISO 12100.
Risk reduction is the process of driving machinery risk down to an acceptable level; design measures come first and PPE comes last.
Performance Level is the five-step scale in EN ISO 13849-1, from PL a up to PL e, for how reliably a safety function performs when called on.
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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