An original equipment manufacturer is the company that designs and builds machinery, often relying on specialist compliance support to navigate CE, UKCA and PUWER requirements.
EN ISO 12100 is the foundation standard for machinery risk assessment; every machine safety decision traces back to its method.
Lockout tagout is the procedure of isolating a machine’s energy sources and locking them off so it cannot start while someone is working on it.
EN IEC 62061 is a machinery standard for safety-related control systems; it grades each safety function by Safety Integrity Level.
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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