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• Guide to Application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

  10^th Aug 2017

  Edition 2.1 (update of the 2nd edition) of the Guide to application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC is publically availible. Click for more details.
   

• PTB Article on software risk management

  22^nd Feb 2017

  Please see the article on software risk assessment that the UKWF have recently had published in the PTB magazine.

• Weighing in the news

  22^nd Feb 2017

  There have been a number of magazine, newspaper and television articles recently connected with the issue of a possible return to imperial measurement. They make interesting reading and listening. Click for links.

• Obituary Alan Birch of AB & Sons

  9^th Jan 2017

  With great sadness we would like to inform you that Alan Birch the founder of AB&Sons (Retired) passed away on Monday 2^nd January 2017 after a five year long battle with lung cancer aged 72, he died peacefully surrounded by his family and close friends.

• EN45501 - Comparisons

  26^th Oct 2016

  A cross reference chart has been produced of the potential changes to the EN45501.

• The Blue Guide 2016

  11^th Apr 2016

  There has been a new Blue Guide issued to bring it into line with the changes bought by the NLF.

• The end of the NMRO

  11^th Apr 2016

  The proposed amalgamation of the NMRO and the BRDO has now taken place and they are now one department to be known as the Regulatory Delivery.

• The implementing regulations for the Directive 2014/31 and 2014/32

  11^th Apr 2016

  Regulations which will bring the above requirements into force will not now be done until after the EU Referendum. 

• Changes at the NMRO

  21^st Mar 2016

  It has been announced receltly that ​BRDO and NMRO will be brought together into a single BIS directorate from 1 April 2016.

• The New NAWI Directive

  21^st Mar 2016

  New NAWI directive comes into force on 18th April 2016