Machinery Risk Assessment
The procedure for carrying out a risk assessment is defined in DIN EN ISO 12100.
This standard contains informative lists about hazards, hazardous situations, and hazardous events, for the identification of individual hazards
In addition, there are specific safety standards for machinery groupings or types. These are the so-called Type B and C standards with very specific requirements and hazard lists.
Type B standards are generic safety standards covering safety aspects or one type of safeguard that can be used across a wide range of machinery.
Type B1 standards for particular safety aspects
Type B2 standards for safeguards.
- EN ISO 13851 – Safety-related parts of control systems
- DIN EN ISO 14120 – Positioning of safeguards
- EN 574 – Two-hand control devices and
- EN 953 – Fixed guards
Type C standards are machine safety standards dealing with details safety requirements for a particular machine or group of machines.
Examples of Type C standards:
- EN ISO 16092-3 – Hydraulic presses
- EN 415, 1-10 – Packaging machines
- EN 12409 – Thermoforming machines