A MEWP, or mobile elevating work platform, is powered access equipment, such as a scissor lift or cherry picker, that must satisfy both PUWER suitability and LOLER lifting performance requirements.
The Office for Product Safety and Standards is the UK government agency responsible for enforcing product safety and standards and protecting consumers from unsafe products.
An approved body is the Great Britain counterpart of an EU notified body, providing third-party conformity assessment on the UKCA route.
An authorised representative is an EU-based person or company acting on behalf of a non-EU manufacturer to ensure a product meets EU requirements.
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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