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SAFETY
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PNSPO
2.3.1 Essential safety requirements
The essential health and safety requirements laid down in this Directive are mandatory.
However, taking into account the state of the art, it may not be possible to meet the
objectives set by them. In this case, the machinery must as far as possible be designed
and constructed with the purpose of approaching those objectives.
The “danger zone” means any zone within and / or around machinery in which an
exposed person is subject to a risk to his health or safety.
The “exposed person” means any person wholly or partially in a danger zone.
The “operator” means the person or persons given the task of installing, operating,
adjusting, maintaining, cleaning, repairing or transporting machinery.
The machinery must be so constructed that it is fitted for its function, and can be
adjusted and maintained without putting persons at risk when these operations are
carried out under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer.
The aim of measures taken must be to eliminate any risk of accident throughout the
foreseeable lifetime of the machinery, including the phases of assembly and
dismantling, even where risks of accident arise from foreseeable abnormal situations.
2.4 Harmonised European standards
“Directives” contain essential safety requirements or other requirements in the general
interest (all referred to hereafter as “essential requirements”); these provisions are
mandatory. “Harmonised standards” set out technical provisions that allow assumption
of compliance of the products with the essential requirements, these safety – related
rules are not mandatory.
The “technical provisions” set out in harmonised standards are not mandatory; applying
them is a means a meeting the corresponding essential requirements.
A product complying with the provisions of a harmonised standard the reference of
which has been published in the Official Journal of the EC is presumed to comply with
the corresponding essential requirements.
A product complying with the provisions of harmonised standard the reference of which
has been published in the Official Journal of the EC is presumed to comply with the
corresponding essential requirement(s).
Directives in accordance with the “New Approach” describe the protective aims
(essential requirements) with which the product concerned must comply before it is
distributed. They also lay down the procedure(s) for the EC declaration of conformity
for the product concerned, taking account of the hazards which covered by the
directive.
Manufacturers are responsible for deciding how their products are conceived, designed
And manufactured so that they satisfy the protective aims. At any rate, manufacturers
may only distribute products which comply with the essential requirements specified in
the directives.
The point at which an essential requirements is complied with varies from product to
product and depends on the nature of the product, its application and its concrete
risks. Standards, especially product-specific standards, can serve as an indication for
this. Identity as regards content exists as soon as such standards (e.g. DIN in
Germany, BSI in Great Britain, AFNOR in France, UNI in Italy, SN in Switzerland).