Self-certification is the conformity route that lets a manufacturer declare compliance without third-party involvement, available for all machinery not explicitly listed in Annex I of the Machinery Regulation.
Partly completed machinery is equipment, such as a bare industrial robot, that only becomes a working machine once integrated into an installation.
Designated standards are Great Britain’s equivalent of harmonised standards, carrying a presumption of conformity with UK product legislation.
A statutory instrument is a form of UK secondary legislation, made under powers granted by an Act of Parliament, that both PUWER and LOLER take the form of.
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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