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Laidler Associates - Machinery Safety Directive Specialists

We are the market leaders in machinery safety, which covers machinery safety legislation and risk assessments providing solutions on a world wide basis. Companies from around the world including USA, Japan, China and Ireland have benefited from our experience and expertise.

At Laidler Associates we specialise in taking the stress out of conformity! We not only save you time and money, we also assume responsibility for assembling documentation such as PUWER reports or the Technical File and issuing the Declaration of Conformity for CE Marking projects.

Our qualified staff travel worldwide providing up to date training and information to all business sectors that require conformity to the many CE Standards.

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Help the Aged Charity Walk - Great Wall of China
29 June 2009
Laidler Associates financial administrator Lynne Boucher will take on the challenge of walking around 75 miles of the wall later this year in support of Help the Aged....

Customer Feedback

Greggs plc, Newcastle
I have always been impressed with the friendly, informative attitude of all of the consultants involved in the assessment process, their depth of knowledge, attitude and willingness to assist in finding workable solutions is very reassuring in helping Greggs put the necessary systems in place.”




CE Marking and PUWER Specialists

Why worry and struggle about conforming to the Machinery Directive when Laidler Associates are fully equipped and specialised to quickly and efficiently bring your company into a fully compliant state. Laidler have worked in the USA, Japan, Korea and across Europe and Ireland for companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Diageo, Gillette and many other multi-national blue chips.

Conformity is only a phone call away!

The Machinery Directive is changing! For more information about the forthcoming series of seminars highlighting the major changes, please see the workshops page.

Contact Laidler Associates now for free advice about CE Marking and how it affects you and your company, smaller companies with only a few machines may only require our specialist software which is easy to use, but for larger companies it may be more beneficial to have Laidler take care of everything for you leaving your staff to do what they do best
 
Benefits of working with Laidler Associates
  • By involving Laidler Associates at an early stage, compliance with safety legislation can be planned and implemented as an integral part of any project – CE Marking, PUWER etc.
  • Potential problems are identified at an early stage when compliance can still be designed in to the project.
  • Over compliance can be avoided, which ensures effectiveness and commercial competitiveness.
  • Engineers have constant access to unlimited free advice and information on relevant legislation and European standards.
  • Any requirement for equipment pre-compliance testing is identified at an early stage and built into the development schedule and budget.
  • The involvement of third parties such as test houses and notified bodies is planned, managed and scheduled, if and when required.
  • Laidler Associates assumes responsibility for assembling documentation such as PUWER reports or the Technical File and issuing the Declaration of Conformity for CE Marking projects.
  • For non-European manufacturers, Laidler Associates will act as the ‘Responsible Person in the Community’, sign declarations and provide a valuable ‘customer relations’ service by dealing with any directive-related queries from the end user.
  • Additional services such as tailored training and seminars on all of our services, or the production of customized software applications are readily available
CE Directives
Laidler Certification are a Notified Body to the Machinery Directive and a Notified Body to the EMC Directive. Click here for more info
 

The Standards Shop

Standards Shop

What standards do I need, is a question that is often asked whilst Laidler Associates' engineers are carrying out safety inspections and CE Marking. The answer is now very simple - buy our standards kit! Through the Standards Shop.

Laidler Associates can now supply a Machinery Safety Standards kit, which contains some of the most widely used and generic standards for machinery safety. Standards such as BS EN ISO 12100 which covers basic concepts and terminology, BS EN ISO 14121 principles for Risk Assessment and BS EN IEC 60204-1 electrical equipment of machines

BSI Appointed Distributer

As an official supplier for BSI Standards and publications, the Laidler Standards Shop can supply any of the 27000+ documents that BSI produces. These include British, European and International Standards, publications and guidance documents.

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Risk Management Software System

Risk management software system puwer, ce marking and risk assessment.

The Laidler Associates standard Risk Management system covers both CE Marking and PUWER Assessments.

The software simplifies the sometimes complex issues involved in CE Marking and PUWER. Answering a list of
questions, carrying out and documenting safety risk assessments the software will guide you through to compliance.

Download your evaluation copy now "Risk Management Software"