Welcome to the New Machinery Safety 101 Podcast blog!

Posted by on October 16, 2008

As 2008 draws to a close, Compliance InSight Consulting is enter­ing a new phase in it’s online life. We have been work­ing hard to launch our new web site, and with that our new Machinery Safety 101 pod­cast and blog.

Watch this page for new shows and links to the old shows. We will also be post­ing news items and devel­op­ments in the machin­ery safety world that we think you’d like to know about.

We are using WordPress as our blog engine for a bunch of rea­sons, includ­ing the abil­ity for read­ers to com­ment on arti­cles and shows we post here. I hope that you will reg­is­ter and take advan­tage of this new capa­bil­ity. It’s also a great way to post ques­tions that we will do our best to answer. You can also sug­gest new show ideas if you want.

Thanks for check­ing out our blog and our podcast!

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Our old post­ings can still be found on our Archive Site.


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2 Comments.

  1. DougNix November 2, 2008 at 12:55

    Jon,

    Thanks for let­ting our read­ers know about this free guide. The EU also pub­lishes a num­ber of free guides:

    Community leg­is­la­tion on machin­ery : Comments on Directive 98/​37/​EC
    http://​ec​.europa​.eu/​e​n​t​e​r​p​r​i​s​e​/​m​e​c​h​a​n​_​e​q​u​i​p​m​e​n​t​/​m​a​c​h​i​n​e​r​y​/​g​u​i​d​e​/​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​.​htm

    Machinery : Useful facts in rela­tion to Directive 98/​37/​EC
    http://​ec​.europa​.eu/​e​n​t​e​r​p​r​i​s​e​/​m​e​c​h​a​n​_​e​q​u​i​p​m​e​n​t​/​m​a​c​h​i​n​e​r​y​/​f​a​c​t​s​.​pdf

    There are a num­ber of other guides on other related direc­tives, such as Low Voltage, EMC and Pressure equip­ment. For the com­plete list see:

    http://​ec​.europa​.eu/​e​n​t​e​r​p​r​i​s​e​/​n​e​w​a​p​p​r​o​a​c​h​/​s​t​a​n​d​a​r​d​i​z​a​t​i​o​n​/​h​a​r​m​s​t​d​s​/​p​u​b​l​i​c​a​t​.​h​tml

    A link to more gen­eral infor­ma­tion, includ­ing guid­ance doc­u­ments and the text of 2006/​42/​EC can be found at http://​ec​.europa​.eu/​e​n​t​e​r​p​r​i​s​e​/​m​e​c​h​a​n​_​e​q​u​i​p​m​e​n​t​/​m​a​c​h​i​n​e​r​y​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​htm

    For any read­ers that con­sid­ered going to the 2008 IEEE PSES Symposium but chose not to go, Steve Brody of Brooks Automation gave an excel­lent pre­sen­ta­tion on the changes that the new ver­sion of the direc­tive will bring for machin­ery man­u­fac­tur­ers. His pre­sen­ta­tion is avail­able to IEEE PSES mem­bers via the PSES web site: http:www.ieee-pses.org.

    Also, the IEEE’s Toronto Section is in the process of form­ing a joint Chapter of the Product Safety Engineering Society and the Industrial Electronics Society. I’ll post more infor­ma­tion here as things develop.

    Doug Nix
    Compliance InSight Consulting Inc.

  2. MachineBuilding.net Editor October 31, 2008 at 16:51

    The European Machinery Directive 2006/​42/​EC, which comes into force on 29 December 2009, is of inter­est to machine builders around the world, not just those based in Europe. MachineBuilding​.net, the web­site and email newslet­ter for machine builders and sys­tem inte­gra­tors, has just pub­lished the sec­ond edi­tion of its pop­u­lar free ‘Guide to the New Machinery Directive 2006/​42/​EC’ — see http://​www​.machineb​uild​ing​.net/​n​/​n​0​2​6​5​.​htm

    Jon Severn
    Editor

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