Machinery and equipment safety training

Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC · CE marking · EC Declaration of Conformity · Standards · Risk assessment · Risk reduction · Preparing the technical file · Instructions for use · Upgrading existing equipment · Conformity assessment of in-house equipment · Integrating production-line safety · Safety components · Functional safety · Potentially hazardous equipment · LO-TO principles · Robotic cell safety · Equipment used in explosive atmospheres (ATEX)

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Tailored to individual company needs

Online or in-person training

Training objectives:

Clearly, accessibly and using practical examples to introduce the main requirements of legislation and standards governing work equipment safety.
Deepen specialists' knowledge, helping answer recurring practical questions when purchasing new machinery or production lines: what to consider and which documents to request from equipment suppliers or installers.
Introduce participants to risk assessment principles and hazard reduction measures for equipment in use.
Learn, how to organise upgrades of existing non-CE equipment or installation of new production lines, assess conformity of in-house equipment from design to CE marking, and avoid costly mistakes.

The issue:

Work equipment used in Lithuanian companies accounts each year for around 20% of serious and fatal workplace accidents.
Company managers and their appointed authorised personnel are responsible for appropriate equipment selection, safe use and maintenance.
Industry is adopting increasingly complex automated systems. Servicing them and checking their safety systems requires specialised machinery safety knowledge.

Target audience:

Technical managers, technologists, engineers, energy specialists, occupational safety specialists (8 hours may count towards professional development) and other personnel in manufacturing and industrial companies.

Training stages and duration:

  • online training, 2 days of 4 hours, 8 hours in total.
  • theoretical knowledge assessment (online test provided after training)
  • discussion of test results and key points, advice and answers to participants' questions 
  • issue of training completion certificates

About the trainer

Over 20 years of intensive work in occupational safety, studying production processes, identifying risks and addressing hazard prevention, makes it possible to see complex matters differently and explain them simply.

Raimedas BURBA Occupational and machinery safety expert

Training programme (2 days)

Causes of work equipment accidents, case law and difficult lessons for company managers.
How can we learn from others' mistakes?

Scope of Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC and the main requirements for safe machinery design and manufacture.
The concept of conformity, conformity assessment procedures and declarations of conformity. Annex 4 of 2006/42/EC.
What to consider when purchasing equipment and avoiding problems with customs and enforcement authorities. Good and poor practice.

Overview of ISO 12100. Hazards and their classification. Overview of risk assessment methods. Practical examples of applying assessment methods.

Hierarchy of controls. Risk reduction and residual risk.
Installing guards according to ISO 14120. Safety distances from hazardous areas under ISO 13857. Permanent means of access to machinery under ISO 14122.
Control devices, ergonomics and emergency stops. Protection against electrical hazards.

Conformity assessment procedures, risk assessment and planning risk reduction measures. Compiling the technical file.
Principles of integrating safety. Equipment instructions for use, marking and identification. CE marking and EC Declaration of Conformity.

Methods for upgrading existing equipment first used before 2000, according to the General Provisions for the Use of Work Equipment.
Minimum safety requirements. Practical examples of applying assessment methods.

Main requirements of ISO 13849. Appropriate design and correct safety component circuit diagrams. Safety component connection architecture (categories).
Machinery safety components and their technical parameters.
Determining and assessing the required system performance level (PL). Practical examples of applying assessment methods. Safety calculation tools.

Essential robot safety requirements according to ISO 10218. Risk assessment of robot systems.
Essential robot safety principles and risk reduction methods. Restricting access to the robot's operating area.

Standards and rules requirements and their practical application. Categories and qualifications of electrical personnel.

Main equipment maintenance principles and their effect on safe work. Inspection intervals and records.
Practical review of a machinery safety inspection checklist.

Definition and classification of potentially hazardous equipment (PPĮ). Risks from pressure and lifting equipment. PPĮ registration and the VDI register.
Ongoing maintenance of PPĮ, in-house or by a contractor. Technical condition checks and inspection bodies. Inspection intervals. Practical insights and advice.

Energy source isolation under the Machinery Safety Technical Regulation.
Application of the Lockout/ Tagout (LO-TO) procedure. The principle and sequence of the LO -TO procedure.

Explosive atmospheres, their formation and classification (zones).
Electrical equipment in explosive atmospheres. ATEX and IECEx. Classification, marking and selection requirements for electrical equipment intended for EX environments.
Explosion prevention and protection measures.

Pastaba: kiekvienos temos mokymo pabaigoje paliekama 5 – 10 min. konsultacijoms iš nagrinėjamų kurso temų.

Have questions or need advice?

Call +370 685 06545 or email: raimedas@saugapro.lt

Participant feedback after training

Feedback on similar training held in May 2022.

Thank you for your hard work — very valuable training!

This was my first machinery safety training, so I found it very interesting. You presented the subject in an engaging and systematic way. The topic on day 2 was more complex and required more specialised knowledge, but I gained an overall understanding.

Involving the heads of technical departments in this training was definitely worthwhile. Colleagues have already started asking one another questions about the subject, which is a positive step.

I would also like to thank you for the high-quality training. It was especially useful for my colleagues, whose previous knowledge was largely limited to some aspects of functional safety. It also helped me refresh what I had learned in Pilz training and through practical work at company X.

Yes, I really enjoyed it. Thank you for the training content. It was useful in every respect, both for a deeper understanding of certain topics and for learning about matters I had previously heard little about. It also addressed very relevant issues and answered questions that concerned us.

Thank you for the certificate, the very productive training and the discount. You are an excellent trainer — experience makes a difference!

It really opened my eyes, and I still have work to do reviewing matters and improving oversight. People seem to know certain things, yet still get confused. I personally really enjoyed the training, took many notes and will try to implement what we learned. It was time for my colleagues to refresh their knowledge too, and honestly, we did not know everything. Thank you very much — more knowledge is always useful!

I am delighted to have had the opportunity to attend your training. I found it informative and substantial.

Thank you for the opportunity to attend the training. It was interesting and professional. You successfully covered the range of legal requirements and used examples to explain their practical application in a systematic and engaging way.