Turkish – CE Marking
THE QUESTION
The manufacturer often asks questions about the free circulation of machines in countries outside the EU.
Do the same EU principles apply to ...
Machinery Directive
Explosiveness of dust
The explosion of dust is quite simple to imagine in terms of everyday experience.
ATEX Risk
Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC: Introduction
The Machinery Directive contains 29 articles and 12 annexes and is addressed to the Member States, which are obliged to implement its requirements in national legislation.
Machinery Directive
Machinery Directive and Partly completed Machinery, Guide 2023
The Guide to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC has been updated in October 2019. It contains a number of clarifications and corrections to the concept...
Machinery Directive
Gas Train
The Gas Train is a part of a combustion system, featuring the components that carry the fuel from the network (or from the tank) to the burner. A gas train can ...
Gas Furnaces - CE Marking
ATEX REGULATIONS AND CLASSIFICATION OF ATEX AREAS
The Atex Classification of places with danger of explosion (atex zone) due to the presence of explosives, flammable fluids and combustible dusts was in the past...
ATEX Risk
ATEX DIRECTIVE 99/92/CE AND EXPLOSION RISKS
Legislative Decree 81/08 Art.290 on the assessment of explosion risks, states that:
In fulfilling the obligations set out in Article 17, paragraph 1, the empl...
ATEX Risk
DIRECTIVE 2014/34/EU
Directive 2014/34/EU, which came into force on 20 April 2016, aims to provide the requirements to be met by equipment and protective systems intended for use in...
ATEX Risk
NEC and the GFCI
A GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) is the American equivalent of the High Sensitivity Differential protection or "Salva Vita" in Italian. It detects if the current is flowing where it should not (ground fault) and shuts off the power. It trigg...
UL and CSA Conformity
Hazardousness of substances
What causes an explosion is the combustion of gas. For this to occur, 3 elements are needed:
- Combustible: the gas
- Oxidizer: the air (oxygen)
- Ignition: ...
ATEX Risk
The Alarp Principle
The Alarp principle recognizes that there are three broad categories of risks:
1. Negligible risk: Broadly accepted by most people as they go about their e...
Machinery Safety
Why Machinery safety is so important?
Machinery Safety is probably the main leverage that can reduce the number of deaths and injuries in the work place.
In the European Union machinery is a contrib...
Machinery Safety
