Posted By Peter Longworth Can some one help me with this one please. One of our project engineers has designed and built a piece of kit for use on one of our production lines. Basically what it is, is a pneumatic clamping device that secures a component in place to allow an air decay test (testing for water leaks) to take place. The component fits snugly into a jig and the clamp moves about 1mm to secure the component. The clamp is activated by a two-handed control placed well away from the jig. My question is, given that the kit has been made for use in-house and given that there are moving parts, does the piece of kit have to be CE marked in compliance with SMSR 1992.

Posted By Peter Longworth Thanks for that. I'm confident that it meets all the essential health and safety requirements, it's just whether from a procedural point of view a CE mark is necessary.

Posted By Merv Newman They are not even "supplying". Built in-house, used in-house. No CE mark required. Now, if they lent it to someone else ... Merv

Posted By Russell Peacey Hi Peter, I don't agree with the previous answers (but I stand to be corrected). Regulation 12 of the SMSR 1992 requires that relevant machinery is CE marked. Regulation 11 (1)of the SMSR requires that no machinery is supplied unless it meets the requirements of regulation 12. Regualtion 11(2) of the SMSR states - Where a person being the manfucturer of a relevant machine, himself puts that machine into service in the course of business then that person shall have supplied the machine to himself. Therefore, your company has supplied the machine to itself and must CE mark it as well as ensuringing it meets all the relevant EHSR'rs etc. Hope this helps Russ

Posted By TBC This earlier thread cover this quite well. http://www.iosh.co.uk/in...iew&forum=1&thread=21298