Machinery Safety
& CE/UKCA
Compliance Support

Start with the destination market, supply date, machine classification and applicable legislation. Establish the relevant requirements, assess and reduce risks, assemble technical evidence and instructions, complete the applicable conformity assessment procedure and issue the appropriate declaration and marking. Bespoke manufacture is not a general exemption. Some machinery categories require particular assessment routes; third-party certification is not universally mandatory.

Great Britain currently accepts CE or UKCA marking for machinery through the applicable route. Northern Ireland uses CE; CE plus UKNI applies where a UK body undertakes mandatory third-party assessment. UKCA alone is not valid for NI or the EU, and CE plus UKNI does not provide access to the EU market. EU machinery uses CE. The EU Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 becomes generally applicable on 20 January 2027; plan the compliance basis around the market and placing-on-market or putting-into-service date. GOV.UK marking guidance · European Commission machinery guidance.

For machinery within the scope of the applicable supply legislation, the manufacturer must ensure a risk assessment is carried out and use it to inform design and construction. ISO 12100 provides a structured methodology. An assessment for new machinery and an employer’s assessment of work equipment serve different duties; the scope should make clear which is being addressed.

A description of the machine, drawings and control-circuit information, the risk assessment, applicable requirements and standards, calculations and test reports, instructions, relevant supplier declarations and the machinery declaration. The detail depends on the machinery and legislation. A folder of component certificates alone does not demonstrate the safety of the assembled system.

Yes. Individual assessments and reviews can be commissioned separately. We agree the machine boundary, available information, access, outputs and exclusions before starting. If the assessment identifies a need for functional safety work or other evidence, that additional scope is discussed with you.

Yes. A review can identify gaps in the existing design and evidence and organise the corrective actions. Physical changes or further testing may be necessary. For installed or modified equipment, we first distinguish machinery-supply obligations from workplace duties, including PUWER where applicable; an existing machine does not automatically need retrospective CE marking.

The manufacturer or other legally responsible party retains its applicable duties. Orange-Tech supports the engineering assessment and evidence; engaging a consultant does not transfer those duties or turn a consultancy review into certification. Responsibility for signing the declaration and the applicable assessment route is established at the outset.

At concept and requirements definition, before the layout, guarding and control architecture are fixed. Early assessment allows risk reduction to influence design. Reviews should follow significant design changes and continue through verification, validation and handover. Late-stage support is possible, but outstanding design decisions still need to be resolved.

The assessment considers the combined application: robot, tooling, workpiece, fixtures, transfers, safeguarding and operating modes. Interfaces can introduce hazards absent from the individual machines. Supplier declarations are useful inputs, but the integrator must address system-level risks, access and restart arrangements, and the performance of the complete safety functions.

A short description of the machine, intended use, destination market, current stage, delivery timing and the support required. Tell us what drawings, risk assessments and test records already exist. No confidential designs or document uploads are needed for the initial enquiry; arrangements for detailed information can follow.

Timing depends on complexity, the quality of available information, site access, design maturity and the reviews required. We confirm the proposed programme after scoping the work. Corrective engineering and missing evidence can affect close-out, so the assessment schedule and the manufacturer’s completion activities are considered separately.