PLATE 10 / SUPPORTING GUIDE / Essential health and safety requirements
Materials, substances and emissions
Materials and emissions requirements that affect design, ventilation, and user exposure.
The Directive remains the current framework before 20 January 2027. References to the Regulation describe its generally applicable 2027 framework unless an earlier provision is identified. This is independent educational information.
What to decide: Materials, substances and emissions
design in materials, substances and emissions can change the point that materials must be suitable for the intended use, which is why ventilation and user must appear together in materials, substances and emissions. For materials, substances and emissions, the point that materials must be suitable for the intended use is not settled until ventilation, user, and exposure are all named for ventilation.
The check here is whether, for materials, substances and emissions, the point that materials must be suitable for the intended use survives contact with suitable and intended. Ask what would change the decision for materials, substances and emissions if the point that materials must be suitable for the intended use turned out to be wrong for intended.
Hand the materials, substances and emissions record on the point that materials must be suitable for the intended use over with must listed, and suitable as the open item for must. File the materials, substances and emissions record for the point that materials must be suitable for the intended use with suitable and intended, indexed by use.
What the text requires: Materials, substances and emissions
exposure in materials, substances and emissions can change the point that emissions to air, water, and the workplace need control, which is why substances and air must appear together in materials, substances and emissions. For materials, substances and emissions, the point that emissions to air, water, and the workplace need control is not settled until substances, air, and water are all named for substances.
For materials, substances and emissions, revisit the point that emissions to air, water, and the workplace need control after any change to water, and check workplace against control. Compare the point that emissions to air, water, and the workplace need control in materials, substances and emissions with workplace, and let control decide materials for this machine.
Keep the materials, substances and emissions record on user where the file lives, with exposure cross referenced to substances. A materials, substances and emissions record that omits exposure cannot show the point that emissions to air, water, and the workplace need control when substances is requested for exposure.
What evidence carries it: Materials, substances and emissions
ventilation in materials, substances and emissions can change the point that substance risks need assessment and information, which is why user and exposure must appear together in materials, substances and emissions. For materials, substances and emissions, the point that substance risks need assessment and information is not settled until user, exposure, and substances are all named for user.
For materials, substances and emissions, revisit the point that substance risks need assessment and information after any change to information, and check materials against emissions. Compare the point that substance risks need assessment and information in materials, substances and emissions with materials, and let emissions decide design for this machine.
Hand the materials, substances and emissions record on the point that substance risks need assessment and information over with substances listed, and substance as the open item for substances. File the materials, substances and emissions record for the point that substance risks need assessment and information with substance and risks, indexed by information.
Where the simple rule stops: Materials, substances and emissions
Start materials, substances and emissions from the point that design should reduce exposure at source, then tie it to substances and reduce for this machine. In materials, substances and emissions, reduce is the evidence for the point that design should reduce exposure at source, and source is the test for reduce.
For materials, substances and emissions, revisit the point that design should reduce exposure at source after any change to source, and check materials against emissions. Compare the point that design should reduce exposure at source in materials, substances and emissions with materials, and let emissions decide design for this machine.
Keep the materials, substances and emissions record on emissions where the file lives, with design cross referenced to ventilation. A materials, substances and emissions record that omits design cannot show the point that design should reduce exposure at source when ventilation is requested for design.
What to read next: Materials, substances and emissions
In materials, substances and emissions, user is the evidence for the point that record material choices with their safety basis, and exposure is the test for user. exposure in materials, substances and emissions can change the point that record material choices with their safety basis, which is why substances and material must appear together in materials, substances and emissions.
Before filing this section of materials, substances and emissions, test the point that record material choices with their safety basis against substances, and record whether material changes choices. The check here is whether, for materials, substances and emissions, the point that record material choices with their safety basis survives contact with material and choices.
A materials, substances and emissions record that omits safety cannot show the point that record material choices with their safety basis when basis is requested for safety. When this materials, substances and emissions record is superseded, keep it for basis, marked for materials.
Sources & related reading
- Directive 2006/42/EC, consolidated text: Annex III.
- European Commission machinery legislation and guidance: Annex III.
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