Book III: Work equipment and means of protection

The design and construction obligations for the placing on the market of “machinery” apply to work equipment designated below by the word “machinery” and included in the list below: 1° Machinery; 2° Interchangeable equipment; 3° Safety components; 4° Lifting accessories; 5° Chains, cables, straps; 6° Removable mechanical transmission devices.

The definition of machine covers 1° An assembly fitted with or intended to be fitted with a drive system other than directly applied human or animal power, consisting of linked parts or components, at least one of which is movable and which are joined together for a specific application; 2° An assembly referred to in 1° which is missing only components for connection to the site of use or for…

Interchangeable equipment is a device which, after a machine or tractor has been put into service, is assembled to it by the operator himself in order to modify its function or provide a new function, insofar as this equipment is not a tool.

A safety component is a component: 1° Which serves to ensure a safety function; 2° Which is placed on the market in isolation; 3° Whose failure or malfunction endangers the safety of persons; 4° Which is not essential to the operation of the machine or which, from the point of view of operation alone, could be replaced by an ordinary component. A ministerial order issued by the Minister for Labour…

A lifting accessory is a component or piece of equipment not connected to the lifting machine, enabling the load to be gripped, placed either between the machine and the load or on the load itself or intended to form an integral part of the load and placed on the market separately. Lifting accessories include slings and their components.

A chain, rope or strap within the meaning of 5° of article R. 4311-4 is a chain, rope or strap designed and manufactured for lifting and forming part of a lifting machine or lifting accessory.

A removable mechanical transmission device is a removable component designed to transmit power between a self-propelled machine or a tractor and another machine by connecting them to the first fixed bearing. When this device is placed on the market with the guard, the assembly is considered to constitute a single product.