exxon
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the machine directive and in particular the safety of the machinery is not something that can be explained (or think you can understand) with some posts on a forum.... I was convinced otherwise.
You don't even understand it by reading the rules: It is so complex and destroyed that the first impression you have is that it was written by someone who had smoked spoiled stuff.. .
then, reading the various explanations (normally volumes much thicker than the norm and equally expensive...), and rereading for the second, the third, the... n-th time the original document, you start to see the light.
regarding your question about active and passive safety, not always the passive one is the best: depends on the complexity of the two solutions and the associated risk. in poor words is a statistical calculation that takes into account the probability that an event occurs and the severity of its consequences. so much to facilitate things, there are several calculation systems and different interpretations of the results... Nice, right?
Consider that there are professional figures who do this job exclusively.