Machine Safety ¨C Basic training

• 11.11.2024, 08:30 - 12:30

• Abteilung SGU,?Training  ()

This course offers an introduction to machine safety and focuses on the requirements of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC on the placing on the market of machinery and partly completed machinery. The Machinery Directive is the most important safety provision to be complied with when manufacturing machines. How to implement the essential health and safety requirements is shown in an overview of the most important fundamental standards.

Topics:

? Legal basis for placing machinery on the market in Switzerland

? Definition of placing on the market, manufacturer and authorized representative, machinery, significantly changed machinery, partly completed machinery.

? Essential health and safety requirements

? Procedure to place partly completed machinery on the market

? Technical requirements of machinery

? Guideline for the Directive

ETH staff who:

? plan, manufacture, place on the market, buy, install, use and operate machines and systems

? work as engineers and designers in machine construction development divisions

? convert or build machines for their own businesses

Certificate of participation by SSHE