Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

Part 6 those with the lifting or moving of persons. The 
requirements also comment on instructions (including 
translation requirements) and marking.
When applying the essential health and safety 
requirements, technical and economic limitations at the 
time of construction may be taken into account.
17.30.8 Standards
Machinery and safety components manufactured in con-
formity with specifi ed, published European standards 
which have also been published as identically worded 
national standards (‘transposed harmonized standards’), 
will be presumed to comply with the essential health and 
safety requirements covered by those standards.
The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) 
is working to produce a complex of European standards 
at three levels in support of the Machinery Directive. The 
fi rst (A) level comprises general principles for the design 
of machinery. The second (B) level covers specifi c safety 
devices and ergonomic aspects. The third (C) level 
deals with specifi c classes of machinery by calling up 
the appropriate standards from the fi rst two levels and 
addressing requirements specifi c to the class.
17.30.9
Step 1 – Conformity assessment 
(‘attestation’)
The responsibility for demonstrating that the machinery 
or safety component satisfi es the essential health and 
safety requirements rests on the ‘responsible person’.
For most machinery or safety components (other 
than those listed in Annex D)
: the ‘responsible person’, 
must be able to assemble the technical fi le described in 
Annex E.
For machinery or safety components listed in 
Annex D
: the ‘responsible person’ must follow the 
special procedures described below.
17.30.10 Step 2 – Declaration procedure