BSI publishes BS EN ISO 12100:2010 machinery safety standard

BS EN ISO 12100 provides machine designers with an overall framework and guidance for making decisions so they can build machines that are safe for their intended use. The new standard considers the ability of a machine to perform its intended function(s) during its life cycle where risk has been adequately reduced.

BS EN ISO 12100 specifies basic terminology, principles and a methodology for achieving safety in the design of machinery. It also specifies the principles of risk assessment and risk reduction to help designers in achieving this objective. These principles are based on knowledge and experience of the design, use, incidents, accidents and risks associated with machinery.

Procedures are described for identifying hazards and estimating and evaluating risks during relevant phases of the machine's life cycle, and for the elimination of hazards or the provision of sufficient risk reduction measures.

Guidance is provided in relation to the documentation and verification of the risk assessment and risk reduction process.

Contents of BS EN ISO 12100 are as follows:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Scope
• 2 Normative references
• 3 Terms and definitions
• 4 Strategy for risk assessment and risk reduction
• 5 Risk assessment
• 6 Risk reduction
• 7 Documentation of risk assessment and risk reduction
• Annex A (informative) Schematic representation of a machine
• Annex B (informative) Examples of hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events
• Annex C (informative) Trilingual lookup and index of specific terms and expressions used in ISO 12100
• Bibliography

BS EN ISO 12100:2010 replaces BS EN ISO 14121-1:2007, BS EN ISO 12100-1:2003+A1:2009, BS EN ISO 12100-2:2003+A1:2009

BS EN ISO 12100:2010, ISBN 978 0 580 67421 1, is available from BSI as a hard copy or PDF, priced at 186.00 or 93.00 for Members of BSI.