Procter Machine Guarding

Procter Machine Guarding has designed, manufactured and installed bespoke automated warehouse guarding for one of Europe's largest automated high-bay warehouses, situated in Spain, which is owned by a global fashion retailer.

Machine designers in the UK and Europe are familiar with designing guarding in accordance with the requirements of EN 294, 'Safety of machinery - Safety distances to prevent danger zones being reached by the upper limbs,' but this standard has now been superseded and replaced by a European/International standard EN ISO 13857:2008, 'Safety of machinery - Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and lower limbs.' Furthermore, this standard also supersedes and replaces EN 811, 'Safety of machinery - Safety distances to prevent danger zones being reached by the lower limbs.' Of course, the British Standard equivalents of these three are BS EN ISO 13857:2008, BS EN 294:1992 and BS EN 811:1997.

Procter Machine Guarding has redesigned its popular free Risk Assessment Calculator in line with the requirements of the recently published international standard EN ISO 14121-1:2007 (Safety of machinery. Risk assessment. Principles), which has replaced EN 1050.

Procter Machine Guarding is offering a free 'Guide to the New Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC' to help companies prepare in time for the new regime that comes into force at the end of 2009.

Procter Machine Guarding is offering a free kit comprising the latest editions of the company's hugely popular machinery safety guides and software utilities. Three of these are designed to help designers, builders and users of machinery comply with current Regulations and standards, while the fourth is for prudent managers who want to prepare themselves for all eventualities.

Procter Machine Guarding is offering the latest version of its free guide to machinery guarding standards. This fourth edition of 'On Your Guard' has been updated and completely redesigned.