We have published two technical books in which notable authors deal with various aspects of the safety of machines and plants as well as the EU standards and regulations on machine safety:
"Safety on machines and engineering plants" and "Protection of human life in practice".
In addition, we would recommend you to read the following referring to this subject:

MRL News Ausgabe 33/11/11
(07.11.2011)

With respect to the content of this MRL News, our first item today concerns the important subject of “nip points – danger zones!” (an article by Dr. Alfred Neudörfer, retired Academic Director at the Technical University of Darmstadt). more

 
MRL News - Issue 32/06/11
(15.08.2011)

In the meantime round 1 of this year’s "tec.nicum on tour!" lecture events has taken place; in addition our new technical book "Best of MRL-News and other Schmersal/Elan publications" appeared at the start of the year. Today we are continuing this with a regular new edition of the MRL News. more

 
 
15.08.2011 
Best of MRL News

Information on "Safety of Machinery and Machine Control Systems" If one considers the new EC Machinery Directive, the replacement of EN 954-1:1996 and its successor EN ISO 13 849-1:2008 (2006) as well as the other amendments to standards and current questions, we have all had to contend with a great deal of change recently in the area of functional machine safety. more

22.06.2011 
Safe Machinery in Europe • Part 4

Safety-related control systems^from the category to the performance level. Implementation and application of the EN ISO 13849-1 Berthold Heinke 1st Edition • January 2011 ISBN: 978-3-934966-66-8 108 pages • € 13,80 siehe http://www.vti-bochum.de/ more

 
22.06.2011
Safe Machinery in Europe • Part 5 more
19.11.2010
New MRL News issue more
18.05.2010
Safe Machinery in Europe • Part 1 more
28.06.2006
A New Approach to Machine Safety: more
08.06.2004
Machine Safety in the European Community more