An interlocked guard is a movable guard wired to the machine’s safety controls: open it and the hazardous movement stops until the guard is closed again and the machine restarted.
Where the machine takes time to run down, guard locking holds the door shut until movement has stopped. Trap key systems do a similar job mechanically: the key that cuts the power is the only key that opens the guard.
A duty holder is the person or organisation legally responsible for ensuring compliance with a given piece of health and safety legislation.
An isolator switch is a compliant on-off device, correctly coloured and lockable, that lets maintenance teams safely de-energise a machine before servicing.
The safe working load is another term for the rated maximum load a piece of lifting equipment can lift, used interchangeably with WLL.
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
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