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Foodstuffs machinery/equipment and machinery/equipment for cosmetics
or pharmaceutical products
Is there instruction to avoid any risk of infection, sickness or contagion?
Instruction indicates recommended products and methods for cleaning,
disinfecting, and rinsing?
Portable hand-held and/or hand-guided machinery or equipment
Have a sufficient number of handles and supports of an appropriate size to
ensure the stability of the machinery or equipment under operation condition?
Is the information concerning vibrations transmitted by portable hand-held
machinery mentioned?
Machinery for working wood and material with similar physical characteristics
Can the piece being machined or of equipment be placed and guided in safety,
involving the risk of ejection of workpiece?
Is an automatic brake equipped with, that stops the tool in a sufficiently short time
if there is a risk of contact with the tool?
Supplementary essential health and safety requirements to offset hazards due
to the mobility of machinery
Is driving position, seating, positions for other persons provided in complete
safety condition?
For control systems:
- remote control is provided?

- all control devices are able to be actuated from the driving position?

- acoustic /visual warning signal is applied, in case of reversing?
- starting/moving, travelling function is possible?

- movement of pedestrian-controlled machinery is possible?

Protection against mechanical hazards;

- moving transmission parts

- roll-over and tip-over

- falling objects

- means of access
- towing devices

Protection against other hazards;

- battery

- fire

- emissions of hazardous substances
Information and indications are informed regarding signs, marking and warnings?
Supplementary essential health and safety requirements to offset hazards
due to lifting operations
Protection against mechanical hazards

- risks due to lack of stability
- mechanical strength

- pulleys, drums, wheels, ropes and chains

- lifting accessories and their components
- control of movements

Protection against risks to persons in or on the carrier, due to the lifting of person
- movements of the carrier

- persons falling from the carrier

- objections falling on the carrier
Information and marking: the maximum working load?
- chains, ropes and webbing
Annex VI. Inspection Certificate: Machinery and Equipment
- lifting acc essories
CONCLUSIONS
On the basis of our full inspection, information obtained during inspection, and scrutiny of documentation provided by
Supplementary essential health and safety requirements for machinery
manufacturer, used machinery and equipment may be imported provided that it meets one of two cases in table below.
or equipment intended for underground work
Y N N/A
risks due to lack of stability
Case 1. For used machinery and equipment in general fields, it satisfies the following criteria:

- movement
Age limit Its age does not exceed 10 years.
- control devices
The manufacturing standard applied to the used machinery and equipment is
consistent with the National Technical Regulations (QCVN) with regard to
- stopping
safety, energy saving, and environmental protection. Or,
- fire
The manufacturing standard applied to the used machinery and equipment is
- exhaust emissions
consistent with the National Standards (TCVN) of Vietnam or Standards of
Conformity G7 countries or Korea with regard to safety, energy saving, and environmental
to Standard protection. Or,
In case National Technical Regulation (QCVN), National Standard (TCVN)
or national standard of one of G7 countries or Korea with regard to safety,
energy saving, and environmental protection is not available when inspecting
used machinery or equipment, this content must be specified in the
inspection certificate.
Case 2. For used machinery and equipment in certain specific fields, it satisfies the
following criteria:
its age does not exceed age limit specified in Appendix I of Decision18.
Age limit
(Appendix I: Age of machinery and Equipment in Specific Fields)
The manufacturing standard applied to the used machinery and equipment is
consistent with the National Technical Regulations (QCVN) with regard to
safety, energy saving, and environmental protection. Or,
The manufacturing standard applied to the used machinery and equipment is
consistent with the National Standards (TCVN) of Vietnam or Standards of
Conformity G7 countries or Korea with regard to safety, energy saving, and environmental
to Standard protection. Or,
In case National Technical Regulation (QCVN), National Standard (TCVN)
or national standard of one of G7 countries or Korea with regard to safety,
energy saving, and environmental protection is not available when inspecting
used machinery or equipment, this content must be specified in the
inspection certificate.
Remarks
The inspection certificate is valid within 06 months from the issuance of Inspection Certificate.
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