Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

all
of the requirements that are relevant.
17.30 
Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992

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Summary of the main legal requirements
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Special transitional arrangements remain for products 
covered by existing Directives on roll-over and falling-
object protective structures and industrial trucks and for 
safety components and machinery for lifting persons.
Failure to comply with these requirements
:
➤
will mean that the machinery cannot legally be sup-
plied in the UK
➤
could result in prosecution and penalties, on con-
viction, of a fi ne up to £5000 or, in some cases, of 
imprisonment for up to three months, or of both.
The same rules apply everywhere in the European 
Economic Area (EEA), so machinery complying with the 
Community regime may be supplied in any EEA State.
17.30.3 Coverage
Machinery, described as:
➤
an assembly of linked parts or components, at least 
one of which moves, with the appropriate actuators, 
control and power circuits, joined together for a 
specifi c application, in particular for the processing, 
treatment, moving or packaging of a material
➤
an assembly of machines which, in order to achieve 
the same end, are arranged and controlled so that 
they function as an integral whole
➤
interchangeable equipment modifying the function 
of a machine which is supplied for the purpose of 
being assembled with a machine (or a series of dif-
ferent machines or with a tractor) by the oper 
ator 
himself in so far as this equipment is not a spare 
part or a tool.
Safety components for machinery, described as:
➤
components which are supplied separately to fulfi ll 
a safety function when in use and the failure or mal-
functioning of which endangers the safety or health 
of exposed persons.