Effectiveness of safeguards through safety distances

From determining access to workstations on machinery to arranging safety gates and calculating safety distances and minimum distances: discover more about the effectiveness of safeguards.

Overview

Access to machinery

Principles for determining the dimensions required for openings for whole body access into machinery.

Access to machinery

Safety distances

Formula for the distance to be implemented to protect upper and lower limbs through the standard EN ISO 13855.

Safety distances

Guidelines for the positioning of safeguards

What needs to be considered when positioning safeguards in order to guarantee their effectiveness?

Guidelines for the positioning of safeguards

Minimum distances

Find out more about the prescribed minimum distances on machinery, to avoid crushing parts of the human body.

Minimum distances

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