Do manufacturers of woodworking machinery and other plants have a responsibility to design the machinery for ease of connection to LEV/ extraction?

 

 
 YES

Machinery must be so designed, constructed and/or equipped that risks due to gases, liquids, dust, vapours and other waste materials which it produces can be avoided.

Where a hazard exists, the machinery must be so equipped that the said substances can be obtained and/or evacuated.

Where machinery is not enclosed during normal operation, the devices for containment and/or evacuation must be situated as close as possible to the source of the emission.

 

 
   Source of Information:  Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulation 1992 - Regulation 2.2, Item 1.5.13
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