articleISO 13849 is a critical element to ensure safe machinery, allowing manufacturers to have confidence that they are operating in a well-defined functional safety environment, and it is therefore vital that they understand its requirements and their associated responsibilities.
articleMany machinery end-users upgrade existing equipment as no budget is available to invest in new systems. However, if substantial changes are made, a new conformity assessment may be required. Neil Dyson from TÜV SÜD Product Service, explains more
newsThe Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has designated TÜV SÜD BABT as a Notified Body for the Machinery Directive.
productMany machine manufacturers may
be inadvertently relying on out-ofdate
standards to demonstrate
compliance with the Machinery
Directive, warns Laidler Associates.
Only standards harmonised with
the current Machinery Di
productLaidler Associates, sponsor of the
new Plant Machinery Safety Zone,
will give a presentation on practical
machinery safety including guarding
issues. Using its virtual reality system
to re-create a typical working
envir
productThe death throes of the EN954-1 safety standard have been
long drawn out and it has unexpectedly rallied on more
than one occasion.Now,however, the date of its final
demise has been fixed and system integrators and machine
productMachinery safety and compliance
consultant, Laidler Associates, will
once again be sponsoring the Plant
& Machinery Safety Zone at Health
+ Safety 11 South. The company,
which specialises in machinery safety
legislation
productLaidler Associates is running its
University Certificate in Professional
Development (UCPD) on European
Machinery Safety.
The course includes a week’s
classroom training which covers the
regulatory framework relating
productLaidler Associates cautions suppliers
and users of machinery that they
must still take steps to assess and
control risks associated with electromagnetic
fields, even though the
publication of the Physical Agents
(Electr
productWith EN ISO 13849-1 having been in place for some time as
the standard for the safety-related parts of machine control
systems, it is concerning that comparatively little attention
has been given to one important aspect of
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