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.
Safeguarding is the combination of guards and protective devices that keeps people away from a machine’s dangerous parts while it runs.
A Declaration of Incorporation is the document issued with partly completed machinery in place of a Declaration of Conformity.
Required Performance Level is the reliability target a safety function must achieve, set during risk assessment from severity, frequency and avoidability.
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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