For small manufacturers of industrial equipment and machine builders placing machines on the EU market: define the limits of the machine, go through the hazards by life phase, estimate each risk, record the protective measures and the remaining risk, and export the report for the technical file.
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Workshop of eight people building custom conveyor lines. For a new line, the engineer defines its limits, goes through assembly, operation, cleaning and maintenance, and finds 23 hazards. Each gets a risk estimate, a protective measure — guard, interlock, warning — and a remaining risk. The report goes into the technical file before the declaration of conformity is signed.
Choose your planBefore a machine is placed on the EU market, its manufacturer has to assess the risks it poses and reduce them. Under the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, and under the new Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 that replaces it, the risk assessment is part of the technical file behind the CE marking.
The harmonised standard most builders follow is EN ISO 12100. It describes the method: determine the limits of the machine, identify the hazards, estimate and evaluate each risk, and reduce it by design, by safeguarding and by information for use, then check what remains.
Large manufacturers have safety engineers and specialised software for this. A small workshop that builds special machines or production lines often does it in a spreadsheet, or pays an outside consultant for each machine. Either way, the work is repeated from scratch and the result is hard to find when an inspector or a customer asks.
The software guides you through the method of EN ISO 12100. First you describe the machine and its limits: intended use, reasonably foreseeable misuse, the people around it, space, time and environment limits.
Then you go through the life of the machine — transport, assembly, commissioning, operation, setting, cleaning, maintenance, decommissioning — and record the hazards in each phase, using a list of hazard types: mechanical, electrical, thermal, noise, vibration, materials, ergonomic and others.
For each hazard you estimate the risk from the severity of harm and its probability, choose protective measures — inherently safe design, guards and protective devices, warnings and instructions — and estimate the risk that remains. Measures can reference the standards you apply for them.
The result is a dated report of the risk assessment with every hazard, estimate and measure, ready to keep in the technical file of the machine. When the machine changes, you update the assessment and the report shows what was revised and when.
Machines you build again and again do not start from an empty page: a previous assessment can be copied and adapted, so you only check what is different on the new machine.
If several engineers work on the same machine, each sees the assessment and every change is recorded with date and name, which helps when the design is reviewed or when a customer asks how a hazard was handled.
Getting started takes an afternoon: your company, a first machine and its limits. The software works in the browser, with nothing to install.
The software is built for small manufacturers of industrial equipment and machine builders in the EU. It is in preparation: we are checking whether builders need it before it is built.
The software supports your risk assessment; the manufacturer remains responsible for the safety of the machine, the technical file and the declaration of conformity.
The method of EN ISO 12100: limits, hazard identification, risk estimation and evaluation, risk reduction.
It is the risk assessment part of the technical file; the manufacturer completes the rest of the file and the declaration of conformity.
Yes, copy a previous assessment and adapt it to what differs.
No, it works in the browser.
Not yet. The software is in preparation, and we are checking whether builders need it.