Machinery Safety Guidance

The world of machinery safety can seem very complex. Whether you are a maintenance engineer or plant manager it is often only a small part of your overall responsibility to work with Machine safety which makes the burden of understand the topic in enough detail some task.

The seemingly endless amounts of different documents and new terminology can make it even more difficult. Halcyon’s safety team aim to add value to the products we sell and help you comply with the necessary regulations. Halcyon has a number of Machinery Safety Services if you need a helping hand with installation, design or even risk assessments. We also offer training to suit various level to help you with the subject.

Below are some topics which give some basic guidance to get you started:

• End User Regulations – The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER)
• Machine Builder Regulations – The Machinery Directive (98/37/EC)
  1. Introduction
  2. Essential Health and Safety Requirements
  3. CE Marking
  4. Technical File
• Machinery Safety Standards
  1. Introduction
  2. Structure of the Machinery Safety Standards
  3. List of Key Safety Standards
  4. List of All Safety Standards
• System design according to EN ISO 13849-1:2006
  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Safety System Architectures
  4. Mission Time
  5. Meantime to Dangerous Failure
  6. Diagnostic Coverage (DC)
  7. Common Cause Failure (CCF)
  8. Systematic Failure
  9. Performance Levels (PL)
  10. Sub System Design
  11. Validation
  12. Machine Commissioning
  13. Fault Exclusion