New
UNE-EN ISO 10218-1, safety for industrial robots
5/11/26
It protects safety in industrial environments that use robots and reduces risky situations.
The use of robots in industrial environments involves hazards that need to be controlled.
The new UNE-EN ISO 10218-1 specifies the requirements for an inherently safe design, the risk reduction measures and the information for its use.
This standard addresses all significant hazardous hazards, situations, and events when robots are used as intended and under the conditions of misuse reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.
The main changes with respect to its previous version in 2012 are:
- It incorporates additional requirements for design, mode requirements, clarifications on functional safety requirements, classification of robots (class I and II) for functional safety requirements, cybersecurity requirements insofar as they apply to the safety of industrial robots, and safety requirements for industrial robots intended for collaborative applications.
It also includes Annexes such as Annex ZA (Informative). Relationship between this European standard and the essential requirements of the machinery directive 2006/42/EC.
