The Health and Safety Executive is the UK regulator responsible for enforcing workplace health and safety laws, providing guidance, and inspecting the workplace.
Safeguarding is the combination of guards and protective devices that keeps people away from a machine’s dangerous parts while it runs.
Partly completed machinery is equipment, such as a bare industrial robot, that only becomes a working machine once integrated into an installation.
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.
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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