BS EN ISO 12100-2:2003 + Amendment 1:2009 Safety of machinery. Basic concepts, general principles for design. Technical principles
The primary purpose of ISO 12100 is to provide designers with an overall framework and guidance to enable them to produce machines that are safe for their intended use. It also provides a strategy for standard makers.
The concept of safety of machinery considers the ability of a machine to perform its intended function(s) during its lifecycle where risk has been adequately reduced.
BS EN ISO 12100-2 defines technical principles to help designers in achieving safety in the design of machinery.
BS EN ISO 12100-2 is intended to be used together with ISO 12100-1 when considering the solution to a specific problem. The two parts of ISO 12100 can be used independently of other documents or as a basis for the preparation of other type-A standards or type-B or -C standards.
BS EN ISO 12100-2 does not deal with damage to domestic animals, property or the environment.
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Contents of BS EN ISO 12100-2:
- Scope
- Normative references
- Terms and definitions
- Inherently safe design measures
- General
- Consideration of geometrical factors and physical aspects
- Taking into account the general technical knowledge regarding machine design
- Choice of an appropriate technology
- Applying the principle of the positive mechanical action of a component on another component
- Provisions for stability
- Provisions for maintainability
- Observing ergonomic principles
- Preventing electrical hazard
- Preventing hazards from pneumatic and hydraulic equipment
- Applying inherently safe design measures to control system
- Minimizing the probability of failure of safety functions
- Limiting exposure to hazards through reliability of equipment
- Limiting exposure to hazards through mechanization or automation of loadi (feeding) /unloading (removal) operations
- Limiting exposure to hazards through location of the setting and maintenance points outside of danger zones
- Safeguarding and complementary protective measures
- General
- Selection and implementation of guards and protective devices
- Requirements for the design of guards and protective devices
- Safeguarding for reducing emissions
- Complementary protective measures
- Information for use
- General requirements
- Location and nature of the information for use
- Signals and warning devices
- Markings, signs (pictograms), written warnings
- Accompanying documents (in particular, instruction handbook
- Bibliography
- Relationship between this International Standard and the Essential Requirements of EU Directive 98/37/EC
- Relationship between this International Standard and the Essential Requirements of EU Directive 2006/42/EC
