PUBLICATION

Editorial policy.

This publication explains machinery compliance. It does not certify machinery, give legal advice, or replace the official text.

Sourcing

Legal claims are checked against primary sources: Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 in its consolidated text, Directive 2006/42/EC, and European Commission machinery guidance. Other regimes are labelled by regime and never blended with EU rules. No figure, fee, deadline, standard number, notified body, or contact is invented; where a guide does not know a fact, it says which official source would settle it.

Scope

General educational information only. The core is EU machinery law. United Kingdom and other markets appear only in the plate for other regimes, labelled as such. Workplace use rules are a separate layer from product conformity, and the site keeps the two distinct.

Voice

The voice is the Workshop Manual voice described in docs/voice-profile.md: plain, procedural, and evidence led, knowledgeable but never expert, with no practitioner first person claims and no fabricated authors. Illustrations are labelled illustrative and are never safety specifications.

Dates

Published and reviewed dates are real dates. Guides in this rework carry 27 October 2026 as their working date; the publisher resets that date to the actual push day if it differs. A guide date is updated only when its text actually changes.

Corrections

Errors are corrected under the corrections policy, with the correction date and source recorded. See the corrections page.