Comparison of Legal Requirements: The Machinery Directive vs. the Machinery Regulation
1.1.4 Lighting
Changes
The requirement level and intent are unchanged
Machinery Directive statutory text
1.1.4. Lighting
Machinery must be supplied with integral lighting suitable for the operations concerned where the absence thereof is likely to cause a risk despite ambient lighting of normal intensity.
Machinery must be designed and constructed so that there is no area of shadow likely to cause nuisance, that there is no irritating dazzle and that there are no dangerous stroboscopic effects on moving parts due to the lighting.
Internal parts requiring frequent inspection and adjustment, and maintenance areas must be provided with appropriate lighting.
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Machinery Regulation legal text
1.1.4. Lighting
Machinery or related products shall be supplied with integral lighting suitable for the operations concerned, where the absence thereof is likely to cause a risk despite ambient lighting of normal intensity.
Machinery or related products shall be designed and constructed so that there is no area of shadow likely to cause nuisance, that there is no irritating dazzle and that there are no dangerous stroboscopic effects on moving parts due to the lighting.
Internal parts requiring frequent inspection and adjustment, and maintenance areas shall be provided with appropriate lighting.
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