Abstract :
Open market Europe looms and with it comes the need to standardise standards; and the need to decipher Eurospeak directives. Luckily for us, John Ridley BSc(Eng) CEng MIMechE FIOSH and Chairman of the IProdE Health and Safety Advisory committee has delved into the depths of the Machinery Directive: the message is, shape up or don´t ship out. This article is based on an article in The Health and Safety Practitioner.
