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Read MoreAn update on CE Marking Electrical Cable
CE Marking Wire and Cable In an earlier post, I wrote about the requirements for CE Marking wire and cable and discussed the <HAR> mark. In 2016, the Construction Products Regulation…
Read MoreISO 13849 – 1 Analysis — Part 6: CCF — Common Cause Failures
Post updated 2019-07-24. Ed. What is a “Common Cause Failure”? There are two similar-sounding terms that people often get confused: Common Cause Failure (CCF) and Common Mode Failure. While these…
Read MoreFive things you need to know about CE Marked Wire and Cable
Wire is simple right? Maybe not! Here are the top five things to know when selecting wire and cable products for use in designs that will be CE Marked: Wire…
Read MoreCE Marking Wire and Cable – Necessity or Luxury?
When I set out to investigate the need for CE Marks and <HAR> marks on wire and cable products, I would not have guessed that it would turn out to be as…
Read MoreUnderstanding European Declarations of Conformity or Incorporation
Updated 2014-10-29 In order to understand the various types of EU Declarations, it’s important to first understand a bit about the system that uses them. Two systems of product safety evaluation are…
Read MoreGet the Basics Right!
For more than 15 years I’ve been teaching people about risk assessment, machinery safety and CE Marking of machinery in private, onsite classes and through presentations at safety conferences. Things are…
Read MoreNew HSE advice on CE marking assemblies of machinery
This post was originally published on machinebuilding.net. Reprinted with permission. By Jon Severn, machinebuilding.net A degree of confusion surrounds the question of CE marking assemblies of machinery under the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.…
Read MoreThe Third Level of the Hierarchy: Information for Use
I’ve written about the Hierarchy of Controls in past posts, but I’ve focused on the ‘engineering’ side of the control equation: Physical changes to machine design to eliminate hazards, and…
Read MoreEC Machinery Working Group meets
From our friends at MachineBuilding.net. It is now more than a year since the new Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) came into force, but the situation is still fairly fluid in some respects.…
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