Blog on machinery safety

Articles on machinery risk assessment, the EU Machinery Regulation and working with Probavis.

• 16 August 2026Function analysis: finding the hazards no checklist finds→Hazard lists cover the obvious. Function analysis derives hazards from what a function does, how it fails and how it gets misused, shown on a table saw.
• 11 August 2026When timing becomes evidence: why technical documents need a verifiable point in time→Producing a document is often not enough in a dispute. How a timestamp shows that exactly this state of the data already existed at a given point in time.
• 6 August 2026Risk assessment from 20 January 2027: what the EU Machinery Regulation changes→From 20 January 2027, EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 applies. The methodology of risk assessment remains; its scope grows to include software and connectivity.
• 26 July 2026Getting inherently safe design right→EN ISO 12100 puts inherently safe design first in the hierarchy of risk reduction. What sets it apart from safeguards and warnings, and how to keep the record.
• 22 July 2026Probavis is here: risk assessment, rebuilt from the ground up→Probavis brings machinery risk assessment together in one project tree: rating by Se/Fr/Pr/Av, a standards catalogue, a PDF report and an open AI interface.