Machine and plant safety
Safety in plastics processing

To achieve risk control objectives and comply with legislation, designers, manufacturers and users must apply solutions that meet the essential health and safety requirements set out in Annex 1 to Directive 98/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, and transcribed into French law in Annex 1 to Article R 233-84 of the French Labor Code. These solutions will be chosen following a risk assessment in accordance with standard NF EN 1050.

Readers are referred to the article Safety in extrusion techniques of this treaty for details concerning :

• machine safety standardization ;

• determining hazardous phenomena ;

• risk assessment ;

• prevention strategy ;

• performance categories for safety-related parts of control systems (Standard NF EN 954-1);

and the reference [1].