Isolation is the act of disconnecting a machine’s energy sources, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic or stored, so it cannot operate during maintenance.
Required Performance Level is the reliability target a safety function must achieve, set during risk assessment from severity, frequency and avoidability.
Risk reduction is the process of driving machinery risk down to an acceptable level; design measures come first and PPE comes last.
Residual risk is the risk left over once all your control measures are in place, and it decides whether a machine is acceptable to run or needs further work.
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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