CE Certification - Technical Files

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Technical files are a key element in establishing safe work equipment in that they contain all the relevant information about the equipment.

Such information as speeds, temperatures, pressures, products, materials, fumes, waste, noise, weights etc. are all essential to carry out risk assessments.

Likewise, such collected information can be of paramount importance to users later on I the lifecycle of the work equipment, e.g. when modifications are carried out, key information within the file, could be of vital importance for risk assessing the modification.

It must be borne in mind that where a designer creates a machine today, he or she may be at some other work place in five years time or indeed a new member of the organisation takes up responsibility for a machine, without sufficient and relevant information of which may lead to a hazardous situation.

The Directives call for a range of information to be made available in Technical Files and in order to fully satisfy this requirement, it is suggested that such information should be in the format of Annex I to the Directive, so that there is a certain ease of comparison.

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