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Norms

All the Individual Protection Equipment and some techincal wear is bound to the european regulation established in the scope of “essencial demands” imposed by the directives and specified by the norms. The CE marking guarantees the product free circulation inside the European Union. An Individual Protection Equipment (IPE) placed in the market has been mandatorily object of a technical dossier. It must also be accompanied by a declaration of conformity and instructions of use.

Creation of the European Directive

The 89/686/CEE Directive, adopted in full by the totality of European Union’s nations, is destined mainly to the manufacturares of IPE’s and dictates the conditions of introduction in the market. It defines the essencial demands in terms of conception, manufacturing and methods of testing that the IPE’splaced in the market must respect to assuer the safety of its users, such as: performance, sizing, harmlessness of materials, dexterity, ventilation, maleability, ergonomy, maintenance and storing.

 

This directive defines 3 categories of Individual Protection Equipment according to the risk to its user:

Category 1: MINOR RISK

Simple conception equipment to small risks, whose effects won’t harm the health of its use ror are easily reversable. Equipment in this category are the object of its manufacturers self-certification and provide only confort, hence being mandatory a category 2 or 3 equipment if the job presents a higher level of danger.

Category 2: MEDIUM RISK

Equipment for médium risk, which are the object of a conformity test with the european norms and a certification of that type, issued by a certified laboratory.

Category 3: SEVERE OR IRREVERSIBLE RISK

Equipment for severe, irreversible or deadly danger are subjects of the same tests as the ones in category 2 but complemented with a mandatory production quality control, whether by a quality control system (collection of random samples by a certified organization) or by a quality assurance system with inspection (system controlled by a certified organization).

 

Before introducing any category 3 IPE in the market the manufacturer must head to a certified organization in charge of verifying the IPE’s conformity with the corresponding norm. After this first step the laboratory issues a CE exam declaration to the manufacturer who has preivously provided them with a properly documented technical dossier.

 

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