Safety Handbook - JOKAB SAFETY - #10

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1:8 www.jokabsafety.com "Old" machines "New" machines 1. Machine that is put on the market or put into service after 1/1 1995 in the EEA. Council Directive 89/655/EEC (with amendment 96/63/EC and 2001/45/EC) concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment by workers at work. Possible national legislation on specific machines Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC Machine that is put on the market or put into service before 1995 in the EEA. Possibly more directives 2. All machines that are imported to the EEA irrespective of date of origin. CE-marking + Declaration of conformity The Machinery Directive 98/37/EC EMC-directive 2004/108/EC Council Directive 89/655/EEC (with amendment 96/63/EC and 2001/45/EC) concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment by workers at work. N.B! Not annex 1, instead use applicable directives. Requirements for the use of machinery For a machine to be safe it is not enough that the manufacturer has been fulfilling all valid/necessary requirements. The user of the machine also has requirements to fulfil. For the use of machinery there is a Directive, 89/655/EEC (with amendment 96/63/EC and 2001/45/EC). A new Machinery Directive, 2006/42/EC, will come into force on 29 December 2009. About CE-marked machinery the Directive gives the following requirement From 89/655/EEC (with amendment 96/63/ EC and 2001/45/EC) 1. Without prejudice to Article 3, the employer must obtain and/or use: (a) work equipment which, if provided to workers in the undertaking and/or establishment for the first time after 31 December 1992, complies with: (i) the provisions of any relevant Community directive which is applicable; (ii) the minimum requirements laid down in Annex I, to the extent that no other Community directive is applicable or is so only partially; This means that when repair/changes are made on the machine it shall still fulfil the requirements of the Machinery Directive. This doesn´t have to mean that a new CE-marking is required. (Can be required if the changes are extensive).. “Old” machines For machines delivered or manufactured in the EEA before 1 January 1995 the following is valid. (b) work equipment which, if already provided to workers in the undertaking and/or establishment by 31 December 1992, complies with the minimum requirements laid down in Annex I no later than four years after that date. (c) without prejudice to point (a) (i), and notwithstanding point (a) (ii) and point (b), specific work equipment subject to the requirements of point 3 of Annex I, which, if already provided to workers in the undertaking and/or establishment by 5 December 1998, complies with the minimum requirements laid down in Annex I, no later than four years after that date.