Product Safety Information Checklist

1 Product Safety Information Checklist OCTOBER 2010 SU2 Products have to meet Essential Requirements, also known as Essential Health & Safety Requirements (EHSRs) in the Machinery directive . These are listed in the Annexes to the Directives (and repeated in the Schedules of the UK implementing Regulations, see below). Questions to ask or think about if you encounter a potential Product supply issue Is the equipment dangerous? What is the level of risk? If investigating an accident, did the design of the equipment contribute, or was it due to poor maintenance, user modification, or incorrect use? Has the equipment been modified by the user since it was first supplied in the EU?

2 Was a Declaration of Conformity (DoC) provided? Is it correct? (Annex II Machinery directive ) Are all the Instructions and Warning signs in English? (Machinery EHSR ) Are there detailed cleaning Instructions for machinery handling food, pharmaceutical or cosmetic products? (Machinery EHSR ) Information on the Nameplate and/or Declaration of Conformity (Machinery EHSR ) Is the equipment CE marked? Is it correct? (Annex 3 Machinery directive ) Obtain details of any Notified Body Certain categories of machinery, as listed in Annex IV of the Machinery directive , or Schedule 2 Part 4 of SMR08, may have been/need to be assessed by a Notified Body Is the equipment manufactured to a harmonised European Standard?

3 For machinery handling food do the DoC and/or User Instructions state conformity with EN 1672-2: 2005 Hygiene requirements for food machinery ? (or the predecessor EN 1672-2:1997) To check if a standard is harmonised look at Annex Z of the standard, and also the lists published in the Official Journal, in particular for the latest Machinery directive 2006/42/EC see: Who are the manufacturer/importer/supplier? Is the equipment a one-off, or is it supplied elsewhere in the UK and/or Europe? Remember! Take copies or photographs of the equipment, certificates, name plate, and relevant extracts of the instructions, also relevant measurements, sizes of openings and reach distances to danger, so that if the matter is referred for follow-up by the Product Safety Team you have enough Information for the Product Safety Request form (PSR1) to enable the matter to be properly considered (or they may come back to you for more).

4 Legislation Supply of Machinery ( Safety ) Regulations 2008 (SMR08) & Machinery directive 2006/42/EC The Electrical Equipment ( Safety ) Regulations 1994 & Low Voltage directive 2006/95/ECLifts Regulations 1997 & Lifts directive 95/16/ECPressure Equipment Regulations 1999 & Pressure Equipment directive 97/23/ECSimple Pressure Vessels Regulations 1991 & Simple Pressure Vessels directive 2009/105/ECEquipment and Protective Systems intended for use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 1996 (ATEX) & Equipment and Protective Systems intended for use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres directive 94/9/ECGas Appliances ( Safety ) Regulations 1995 & Gas Appliances directive 2009/142/ECCableway Installations Regulations 2004 & Cableways directive 2009/9/EC