On 2023-06-14, the EU passed the new Machinery Safety Regulation. The new Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 2023-06-29 [1]. This legislation repeals the 2006/42/EC Machinery Directive, just not right away.
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It sounds like the opening chapter of a dystopian novel; the world is being affected by a climate crisis that is making it difficult or impossible for people to live outside, and a pandemic is making it dangerous to stay indoors. This world exists today, and not some dark vision about how things might be…
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This is a first On Thursday, 2023-04-27, ISO published ISO 13849-1:2023, the 4th edition of the dominant functional safety standard for machinery. Usually, I would be the first to tell you that you should buy the standard as quickly as possible and start using it immediately. Today is not a normal day. As Command Module…
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