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Risk Assessments and Safe Machinery

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Although it is primarily the EU Machinery directive 2006/42 and risk assessments that are put into focus here, you can for some part consider the present informative guide as a general introduction to the European Product regulation and how to comply with its essential requirements.

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Jespen, T. (2016). Introduction. In: Risk Assessments and Safe Machinery. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31361-0_1

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