Health and Safety Skills: Industrial Equipment Safety and Confirmity (CE marking)

Audience

• Health and safety practitioners
• Health and safety representatives
• Equipment designers
• Engineering managers
• Production engineers
• Machine builders/integrators
• Maintenance managers
• Purchasing/procurement staff

Dealing with director's personal liability, this seminar is suitable for directors and senior managers as well as design and production engineers.

Skills Gained

By attending this seminar you will:

• Gain an understanding of the statutory requirements involved with CE certification
• Find out which product directives apply to your product
• Discover when and how to assess, control and record product safety risks
• Find out how to construct a technical file and when such a document is required
• Identify the most cost-effective route to compliance for your product

Course Outline

Legal overview

• The European health and safety legislative system, its origins and principles of operation
• The role of harmonised standards
• CE marking (Conformite European)
• The system of new approach directives
• The roles of supplier and purchaser and their interface

A practical view of the requirements of The Machinery

Directive (including The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992)

• The Directive
• Exclusions
• What the Regulations apply to
• Excluded machinery
• General duty
• Supplier responsibilities
• Conformity assessment procedures
• EU-type examination

The Machinery Directive (continued)

• The Low Voltage Directive (including The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994) and their supporting standards
• Background
• General requirements
• Exclusions
• Safety requirements
• The Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations (The EMC Directive)
• General requirements
• To whom the Regulations apply
• Exclusions
• Levels of, and routes to, compliance
• The EC type examination

CE marking and Product Directives

• When to mark
• Third party assessments
• Self assessment
• Technical files
• The EC Declaration of Conformity
• The EC Declaration of Incorporation

Employer's responsibilities

• The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER)
• Interface with 'supplier' based legislation (already considered)
• Effects of the workplace

Risk assessment techniques relevant to CE certification

• Risk assessments and how to conduct them
• Suggested recording systems

The technical file

• Interface with project procedures and product development
• The template of a typical file

Open forum

Health and Safety Skills: Industrial Equipment Safety and Confirmity (CE marking) / HS-IES