I know this is a late reply, but in addition to the earlier responses that addressed the question, this was indeed an EU - not just UK - issue.
The UK's PUWER Regulations [Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2306] is the UK's national transposition of one of the worker-safety directives, 89-655-EEC and 95/63/EC [Council Directive 89/655/EEC of 30 November 1989 concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment by workers at work (second individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) etc.] See http://www.dti.gov.uk/strd/worker.html In other words, other EU (and perhaps candidate members?) will have their own national transpositions, which should necessarily be similar. (Directives are addressed to the member governments.) On the product side, some more familiar examples of UK Regulations may be: - The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992 (SI 1992/3073) as amended by The Supply of Machinery Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 ( SI 1994/2063) - The Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Regulations 2005 (SI 2005/281) - The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994 (SI 1994 No. 3260) The first is the UK transposition of the Machinery Directive. Readers will no doubt guess the other two. Totally off the original topic, but as an example of how national transpositions can intentionally differ from the directive, the UK's Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations cover second-hand products as well as new products, whereas the LVD only required countries to regulate new products. See http://www.dti.gov.uk/strd/ecdirect.html We sometimes get enquiries about some "mysterious" national law, federal law, regulation, presidential decree, royal decree, etc. applied in an EU country, which will often turn out to be [as it should be] a reference to the national implementation of an EU directive. (In Germany, some directives are implemented by individual federal states.) In case you've read this far(!), here is a more obscure example: http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/rail_guided_transport/transpositions.htm Best regards, glyn TUV Rheinland of North America, Inc. Product Safety & -Quality Industrial Machinery Division (Chicago Office) Glyn R. Garside Senior Engineer Functional Safety Program Manager 1945 Techny Rd, Unit 4 NORTHBROOK, IL 60062-5357, USA Tel (847)562-9888 ext 25 <http://www.us.tuv.com/> http://www.us.tuv.com [email protected] wrote on 07/19/2005 10:50:34: > Hi to all, > This is a UK - possibly EU - question. > > In the UK we have the Provision and Use of Work Equipment > Regulations that requires a person who provides or controls > equipment used at work to comply with the regulations. > > The regulations require that equipment provided for use at work must > comply with legislation implementing any EC directives on CE > marking, be constructed or adapted so as to be suitable for the work > undertaken... etc.. such that the operator is not put at risk. > > So - what is the UK Industry Best Practice (IBP) for the supply and > use of equipment that is designed, constructed and used "in house". > The type of thing I am meaning is the special power supply, the I/O > indicator, the custom test rig, that is built to support the design > and development of the product. It might be a 10 minute build, or a > ten week build. > > If some things are not worth certifying against applicable > directives, how is PUWER complied with? > > What do the other EU / Other nations do in this respect? > > Thanks in advance - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
