Educational and expert articles on machinery safety and CE conformity: EU regulations, harmonised standards, legal duties and engineering best practices for design, retrofit and operation.
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“Documentation already aligned with the regulation.” What does that actually mean? That the regulation number, annex ref...
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ISO 12100 Step 3 is not a repository for design problems left unresolved. The manufacturer must describe residual risk c...
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A well-built ANSI B11.0 risk assessment can supply much of the engineering evidence needed for CE marking, but it does n...
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ISO 13849 is often the practical choice for machinery because it handles mixed-technology safety functions and the relia...
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Machine safeguarding measures must be based on the risk assessment, not a copied declaration. Every guard, safety functi...
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A change in F_WD_TIME can increase maximum response time and push the required safety light curtain distance beyond the ...
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Risk reduction for machinery starts by changing the machine, not by wrapping an unchanged hazard in guards. Use ISO 1210...
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Residual risk is what remains after inherently safe design and protective measures have been tried, not a cover-up for w...
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Does a Risk Score of 99 mean the machine is safe? No. Does it mean the machine is dangerous? Not always. And that’s exac...
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From 20 January 2027, the EU Declaration of Conformity for machinery is not a refreshed EC form. It must connect machine...
A risk graph in machine risk assessment helps you structure S/F/O/A, but it does not decide whether a machine is safe. L...
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ISO/TR 14121-2 does not ask for a crowd around the table. It asks for competence that matches the hazard, which means kn...
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