Complies with EN ISO 12100

Safexpert –
The software for
risk assessment

Focus rather than bureaucracy

With Safexpert, you can carry out risk assessments easily, quickly and in compliance with standards.

Compliant
with EN ISO 12100

With Safexpert, you can carry out risk assessments that comply with standards. This ensures acceptance during acceptance inspections, audits and in the event of any complaints.

Less stress
more confidence in decision-making

Validation checks and automatic updates ensure that everyone involved in the risk assessment feels more confident.

Lower costs
Templates & Reuse

Thanks to the guided process, you can get straight down to work without having to spend time on Excel spreadsheets or similar. By reusing solutions and projects, you can work even more efficiently.

Transparent documentation
resulting from your engineering processes

Documentation is the result of your analysis and decision-making process – not an additional process step.

“With Safexpert, we have brought order and structure to our risk assessment.”

“Safexpert helps us to develop safe machinery cost-effectively – without wasting time unnecessarily.”

More testimonials

How to carry out risk assessments using Safexpert

Risk assessment of a robot cell in Safexpert

Create new hazard zones

Risk assessment – determining whether measures are required

Add a measure – including measure type, description and referenced standards and files

Add further measures

Determining the required performance level (PLr)

Have the measures resulted in sufficient safety?

Status indicators for optimum clarity

Thousands of users worldwide rely on Safexpert

As CE Coordinator, I now fulfil my duty to organise CE compliance and ensure product safety in a targeted and clearly documented manner.

Frank Hartmann

Head of Design and CE Representative at Nordson

We used to use Excel, and it was always a lot of work whenever standards changed. With Safexpert, we’re always up to date.

Gottfried Aschauer

Head of Strategic Development, Wintersteiger AG

Safexpert has helped us bring order and structure to our risk assessment. What we find particularly useful is that we can immediately see which aspects of the risk assessment are still outstanding.

Daniel Siemons

Product Safety and CE Compliance Director, Andritz AG

Basic functions of the software

The risk assessment feature in Safexpert is particularly useful during the engineering and design phases. Thanks to the structured approach, safety-related decisions are made and documented in a targeted manner throughout the design process.

Here’s how to carry out risk assessments in just 4 steps:

Where are the hazards hidden in your machine?

Start by identifying which hazard zones are present on your product.

Identifying hazardous situations

Using the templates provided, you can identify which hazards (crushing, cutting, electrical hazards, hazardous substances, etc.) may arise on your machine during the various operational phases (normal operation, maintenance, cleaning, etc.).

Estimating risks – is there anything to be done at all?

With Safexpert’s intuitive risk graph, you can determine whether risk-reduction measures are necessary or whether the residual risk is acceptable.

Define measures and document residual risk

You systematically define the measures you will take to reduce risks in the various areas of the machine. This ensures legal certainty and traceability, and enhances quality awareness in the risk assessment process.

1 Identify hazard zones

2 Identify hazardous situations

3 Assess risks

4 Define measures

Additional features and interfaces

Validity checks and standards references

By linking standards data to your projects and measures, your projects are automatically monitored to ensure they remain up to date. You benefit from reduced manual effort whilst enjoying greater legal certainty and a lower risk of issues arising during audits – both for ongoing projects and when copying existing projects or measures.

Manage your own templates centrally

You save time and increase your level of standardisation through the centralised management of templates. You can manage risk scenarios, including safety measures, centrally, with variant management (alternative solutions) included. Workflows reduce the effort involved in updating solutions and replacing them with successor solutions in your projects.

Control system design: Selection of PL or SIL, including interfaces to SISTEMA and TIA

Maximum clarity at the interface between mechanical design and control system design! Define your requirements directly in Safexpert and use the interfaces to start calculating the Performance Level in SISTEMA or the PL or SIL in Siemens’ TIA.

Integration with technical documentation

With comprehensive reports, functions such as the operating instructions wizard – including a template for operating instructions in accordance with EN 82079-1 – and an interface to the SchemaST4 editorial system, you can choose the option that best suits your needs to manage the interface for creating technical documentation as efficiently as possible.

Select pictograms directly

Select the appropriate pictograms directly within the risk assessment from standardised templates for warnings on your products and for the operating instructions!

Direct access to the latest standards

Safety-related decisions are often made on the basis of standards. Two things are particularly important for maximum productivity: availability and up-to-date information. Safexpert ensures that you always have standards at your fingertips. Depending on your subscription, you will automatically receive the latest standards. In addition, Safexpert keeps you informed about their validity and the status of presumption of conformity.

All completed? Checks and reports

The most important question: Have all the relevant points been dealt with?

Extensive filtering options offer you a high level of convenience, ensuring that you always maintain a clear overview – even in more complex risk assessments. In particular, with just one click, for example, you can see which hazardous situations have been identified in specific life phases, such as ‘Maintenance’ or ‘Cleaning’, or in which hazardous situations the risk has not yet been sufficiently mitigated, or which measures depend on a control system, and much more.
Plausibility checks help you to avoid errors. For example, Safexpert checks whether all hazards have been estimated, whether all life cycle phases created have been used in the risk assessment, whether the three-stage procedure (design – technology – user instructions) has been followed, and much more.
The integrated task system helps you to flag tasks for later or assign them to other colleagues; in project logs, you can document decisions made by teams on a project-by-project basis. Thanks to activity logs, changes to your projects are always traceable and audit-proof.

Printouts for internal documentation, customers, regulatory authorities, etc.

Clear reports mean you can always share the results of your risk assessments with colleagues, customers or, where necessary, regulatory authorities.
Naturally, you can customise the reports to match your corporate identity and specify fonts, logos, etc.
Even if you do not (yet) use the interfaces integrated into Safexpert, numerous reports and export options are available to help you make information (e.g. on residual risks, pictograms, etc.) accessible to others.

More than just risk assessment

Risk assessment is a standalone feature of Safexpert. In addition, Safexpert supports you throughout the entire CE process – from standards research and technical documentation right through to CE marking. Discover the full range of support Safexpert offers throughout the CE process

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Any questions? Find out more about Safexpert

If you’d like to find out more about Safexpert, we can offer you a live online presentation. This will also give you the chance to ask any specific questions you may have. Don’t want to wait until the next session? Recent online presentations are also available as recordings – or you can try out the demo version straight away, free of charge and with no obligation.