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 - Issue 36/01/13
(06.02.2013)

This issue of MRL News may be seen as a special edition, because it is the last to be edited by the undersigned who retired on 31.12.2012. more

 
MRL News Issue 35/07/12
(30.07.2012)

Special interest subject: Safety of machine tools: the significance of guards for reducing risk on machine tools more

 
 
27.03.2012 
MRL News Issue 34/03/12

After receiving the last MRL News in advance of the PLC/IPC/DRIVES 2011, it is again time to offer you a new issue. more

07.11.2011 
MRL News Issue 33/11/11

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

 
15.08.2011
MRL News Issue 32/06/11 more
15.08.2011
Best of MRL News more
22.06.2011
Safe Machinery in Europe • Part 4 more
22.06.2011
Safe Machinery in Europe • Part 5 more
28.06.2006
A New Approach to Machine Safety: more
08.06.2004
Machine Safety in the European Community more