Machinery Safety 101

The European Commission pub­lished a new Communication relat­ing to the Machinery Directive this past Friday that con­tin­ues the silence from the EC on the manda­tory imple­men­ta­tion date for EN ISO 13849–1. Communication C 309/​29, the lat­est update to the list of stan­dards har­mo­nized under the Machinery Directive, indi­cates that EN ISO 13849–1 and –2 were noti­fied in the 8-​​Sep-​​09 Communication, but fails to pro­vide a date for the ces­sa­tion of pre­sump­tion of con­for­mity under the old stan­dard, EN 954–1 /​ ISO 13849–1 1999. EN 954–1 is not listed in the cur­rent document.

MachineBuilding​.net is report­ing that Marie Poidevin from CEN has stated that the pre­sump­tion of con­for­mity under EN 954–1 has been extended to 31-​​Dec-​​2011. Expectations are that an updated list will be pub­lished this week includ­ing a new ref­er­ence to EN 954–1 with the new Mandatory Implementation date.

I con­tinue to watch this story and will update you as new infor­ma­tion is available.

+DougNix is Managing Director and Principal Consultant at Compliance InSight Consulting, Inc. (http://​www​.com​pli​an​cein​sight​.ca) in Kitchener, Ontario, and is Lead Author and Managing Editor of the Machinery Safety 101 blog.

Doug’s work includes teach­ing machin­ery risk assess­ment tech­niques pri­vately and through Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Kitchener, Ontario, as well as pro­vid­ing tech­ni­cal ser­vices and train­ing pro­grams to clients related to risk assess­ment, indus­trial machin­ery safety, safety-​​related con­trol sys­tem inte­gra­tion and reli­a­bil­ity, laser safety and reg­u­la­tory conformity.

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