Performance Level is the five-step scale in EN ISO 13849-1, from PL a up to PL e, for how reliably a safety function performs when called on.
The achieved PL comes from the system’s architecture, component reliability and diagnostics, and it must meet or beat the required level set by risk assessment. PL e sits at the top, for functions protecting against the most serious and most frequent exposures.
Safety Integrity Level is the scale EN IEC 62061 uses to grade how reliable a safety function must be, from SIL 1 to SIL 3 on machinery.
The principles of prevention are the recognised order of priority for controlling risk, favouring collective controls over protecting individuals.
Partly completed machinery is equipment, such as a bare industrial robot, that only becomes a working machine once integrated into an installation.
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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