Safety Handbook - JOKAB SAFETY - #9

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www.jokabsafety.com 1:7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 12 CE-marking and Declaration of conformity Machines manufactured or put on the market from the 1 January 1995 shall be CE-marked and fulfil the requirements according to the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC. This is also valid for old machines (manufactured before 1 January 1995) if they are manufactured in a country outside the EEA and imported to be used in a country in the EEA. NOTE The point in time when the Machinery Directive was implemented in each Member Country varies. Machines have to be accompanied by a Declaration of Conformity (according to 98/37/EC, Annex IIA) that states which directive and standards the machine fulfils. It also shows if the product has gone through EC Type Examination. Safety components have to be accompanied with a Declaration of Conformity (according to 98/37/EC, Annex IIC). According to the requirements in the Machinery Directive, safety components should not be CE-marked. But many safety components fall under the requirements in other Directives such as the Low Voltage Directive and the EMC Directive that require CE-marking. This means that a CE-mark will anyway be found on most safety components. A new Machinery Directive, 2006/42/EC, will come into force on 29 December 2009. This Directive is available at http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/mechan_equipment/machinery/ revdir.htm. Among the new features in the Directive are full quality assurance as a certification procedure, and requirements concerning partly completed machinery. Prepare in good time by reading the Directive and seeing how the changes will affect your company. From the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC 2. For the purposes of this Directive: (a) ‘machinery’ means: — an assembly of linked parts or components, at least one of which moves, with the appropriate actuators, control and power circuits, etc., joined together for a specific application, in particular for the processing, treatment, moving or packaging of a material, — an assembly of machines which, in order to achieve the same end, are arranged and controlled so that they function as an integral whole, — interchangeable equipment modifying the function of a machine, which is placed on the market for the purpose of being assembled with a machine or a series of different machines or with a tractor by the operator himself in so far as this equipment is not a spare part or a tool; The definition of a machine can cover everything from hand-held portable machines to production lines. There are exclusions, e.g. machinery for medical use used in direct contact with patients, means of transport, i.e. vehicles and their trailers intended solely for transporting passengers and agricultural and forestry tractors. The Machinery Directive is valid also for 2. ... ‘safety components’ means a component, provided that it is not interchangeable equipment, which the manufacturer or his authorised representative established in the Community places on the market to fulfil a safety function when in use and the failure or malfunctioning of which endangers the safety or health of exposed persons. Safety components are e.g. light curtains, safety relays and safety PLCs. The Machinery Directive; for machines and safety components