India - Draft Omnibus Technical Regulation for Safety of Machinery
Government of India is in the process of regulating mandatory safety regulation for machinery in India. The loss of lives, injures and the social cost of the large number of accidents caused directly by the use of machinery can be reduced by inherently safe design and construction of machinery and by proper installation and maintenance.
The National Capital Goods Policy notified by the Department of Heavy Industry, Government of India, expresses the need of mandatory standards, minimum acceptable safety, and environment and performance standards for machinery.
A proposed framework for technical regulation (QCO) for machinery safety in India drawing enabling power from the BIS ACT, 2016 is placed below for stakeholder consultation and eventual adoption.
The QCO shall be supplemented with a guideline document based on good practices and standards that would provide step by step guidance, and be able to answer basic questions of the industry as to which standards are applicable for them, which aspects should they consider for hazard reducing processes like risk assessment, and how to apply and implement safety solutions. This Order may be called the Safety of Machinery (Quality Control) Order, 2019. This Order, unless specified otherwise, shall come into force with effect from 1st day of October , 2019.
Safety of Machinery (Quality Control) Order, 2019.
No person shall from the date of enforcement of this order, himself or through any person on his behalf manufacture, or store for sale, sell or distribute machinery or partly completed machinery, which do not conform to the specified standards and do not bear the Machinery Safety Mark specified by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
Please find the attachments of the draft regulation for getting an idea of the below mentioned points. -
- Requirement of Local representative
- Market surveillance
- Notified bodies and its role.
- Classification of machinery
- Machinery excluded from this order.
- Standards applicable
- Notified body qualifying requirement
- Marking and Labelling
- Penalty for contravention