Get a head start on preparing your risk assessment and CE documentation!
With the Safexpert CE software, you receive valuable templates and checklists free of charge, allowing you to focus even more on the tasks that really require your attention.
In addition to the free templates, you can purchase further data products.This means you only pay for what you actually use.
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A number of free templates are available to help you carry out your risk assessment in a legally compliant and efficient manner.
Have you considered all hazards in the risk assessment? Given the large number of hazards and hazard events, it is advisable to carry out the risk assessment using a standardised hazards list.
Safexpert supports users by providing a hazards list based on EN ISO 12100. This reduces the stress for designers of potentially overlooking important points and allows the risk assessment to be carried out more quickly.
Particularly valuable: in the event of changes to standards, you can convert existing risk assessments in a matter of seconds using comparison tables – tasks that would take hours or days to carry out manually!
The standard on risk assessment, EN ISO 12100, requires that ‘all phases of the machinery life’ be taken into account during its construction. As with hazards, it is advisable not to start from scratch, but to begin using a standardised, predefined template.
Safexpert therefore includes the list of phases of the machinery life from EN ISO 12100 as standard. Naturally, you can adapt this list to suit your organisation’s needs.
Standards can significantly improve the efficiency of the design and risk assessment processes. However,this is only possible if information is readily available and accessible to designers.
To ensure you have access to relevant information as quickly as possible during the design process – and particularly during risk assessment – you can benefit from having key standards references displayed directly in a risk assessment sidebar.
However, to avoid information overload, only the information relevant to the current work context is displayed; for example, the standard on electrical safety (EN 60204-1) is displayed when hazards relating to electrical risks are being addressed.
This association saves designers valuable time whilst also helping them to make better safety-related decisions.
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Safexpert supports you with a customisable database of standardised pictograms. This enables you to select the appropriate pictograms as early as the risk assessment stage, for example to alert users to residual risks or the need for personal protective equipment.
Using the relevant reports, you can create checklists that you or your colleagues can use to verify that all pictograms have indeed been displayed in the correct locations.
Don’t start writing your operating instructions from scratch! The operating instructions template provided (based on the key standard for instructions, EN IEC/IEEE 82079-1) already gives you a predefined structure and important general guidance.
The template really comes into its own when used in conjunction with the Operating Instructions Assistant. This allows you to immediately assign notes on residual risks – which you identify in the risk assessment – to the correct chapters, thereby enabling you to produce user manuals more quickly.
If you are already using content management systems, a handy report will help you identify which information must be included in the operating instructions. If you use Schema ST4, Safexpert provides support via an interface to the content management system.
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To guide you step by step through the CE process, we have developed the CE guide in accordance with either the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC), the Machinery Regulation (2023/1230) and the Low Voltage Directive (2014/35/EU).
These software modules map out the respective processes set out in the regulations. Part of the process also involves creating various documents. Here too, Safexpert supports you with templates for the relevant legal acts.
Using the templates in Safexpert’s CE Guide, you can draw up declarations of conformity and declarations of incorporation quickly, in a legally compliant manner and in accordance with the requirements of the Machinery Directive, the new Machinery Regulation and the Low Voltage Directive.
The technical documentation serves as proof that the product supplied complies with the statutory requirements. Upon justified request, this documentation must be provided to the market surveillance authorities; it also constitutes important evidence in legal proceedings.
Safexpert’s ‘Checklists of Technical Files’ help ensure that no important points are overlooked and that all relevant information is gathered in one central location so that it can be found quickly should the need arise.
Of course, you can also create your own checklists and tailor them to your needs. For example, if additional documents are required on the basis of product-specific standards relevant to you or as a result of contracts with customers, you can customise the system whilst still achieving standardisation in your processes!
The Machinery Regulation explicitly requires manufacturers to document which legal requirements have been taken into account during the design phase. Using the free checklist provided, you can document directly within the risk assessment which legal requirements (e.g. regarding adequate lighting, mechanical hazards, …) you have addressed through your measures. The step-by-step guidance for CE marking clearly shows you whether there are any further points from the Machinery Regulation that you have not yet taken into account. This therefore supports you in two ways:
When working with standards, we distinguish between two areas:
This breakdown ensures that you only pay for what you actually need.
The bibliographic data on standards available via Safexpert includes details such as the standard number, date of publication, predecessor and successor documents, date of withdrawal, date on which thepresumption of conformity within the EU ceases to apply, etc. You can use this data to search for standards. Safexpert uses this data as a reference for comprehensive up-to-date checks and analysis functions within your project documentation!
Below you will find an overview of the subject areas currently on offer. These comprise a total of over 35,000 document titles. With your Pro subscription, you can choose to access either the Machinery Directive/Regulation or the Low Voltage Directive subject area. Further subject areas are available as Power-Ups or are included in the Enterprise subscription. See Subscriptions and Prices.
Subject areaMachinery Directive / Machinery Regulation (EU)
Update based on the Official Journal of the EU in accordance with the Machinery Directive / Machinery Regulation
Subject areaATEX Directive (EU)
Update based on the Official Journal of the EU in accordance with the ATEX Directive
Subject areaLow Voltage Directive (EU)
Update based on the EU Official Journal in accordance with the Low Voltage Directive
Subject areaPressure Equipment Directive (EU)
Update based on the Official Journal of the EU in accordance with the Pressure Equipment Directive
Subject areaEMC Directive (EU)
Update based on the Official Journal of the EU in accordance with the EMC Directive
Subject areaRoHS Directive (EU)
Update based on the Official Journal of the EU in accordance with the RoHS Directive
Subject areaAustrian Standards Institute
Contains data provided by Austrian Standards Plus GmbH. This also includes standards from other subject areas.
Subject areaRadio Equipment Directive (EU)
Update based on the EU Official Journal in accordance with the Radio Equipment Directive
With standards packages, all Safexpert users have centralised access to the full texts of harmonised European standards. These standards packages are available in two different scopes. Firstly, the standards package comprising the seven most relevant standards in mechanical engineering offers a selection of those standards required by virtually every company. The standards package comprising more than 55 relevant standards, together with many other B-standards, forms the perfect complement. Our standards packages are available in both German and English. Please contact us for versions in other languages.
Seven particularly important Type A and Type B standards for mechanical engineering, plant engineering and control systems engineering.
A comprehensive collection of the most important safety standards relating to mechanical engineering, plant engineering and control systems
Product-specific standards available and at your fingertips directly in Safexpert: through our collaboration with our partner Austrian Standards, we can provide you with European standards (ENs) in their national implementation in ÖNORM format within Safexpert. Please contact us here with your enquiry regarding standards!
The available Safexpert modules and the functions they contain are listed in the following overview.
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