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General Safety Precautions
Materials testing systems are potentially hazardous.
Materials testing involves inherent hazards from high forces, rapid motions, and stored
energy. You must be aware of all moving and operating components in the testing system
that are potentially hazardous, particularly force actuators or a moving crosshead.
Before operating the system, ensure you gain a thorough understanding of the equipment by:
• receiving training on the safe operation of the system.
• reading and understanding the general hazards associated with materials testing
systems as detailed on pages iv to vi.
• carefully reading all relevant manuals and observing all Warnings and Cautions. The
term Warning is used where a hazard may lead to injury or death. The term Caution
is used where a hazard may lead to damage to equipment or to loss of data.
• carrying out your own safety risk assessment on the use of the test system, test
methods employed, specimen loading and specimen behavior at failure.
Instron products, to the best of its knowledge, comply with various national and
international safety standards, in as much as they apply to materials and structural
testing. We certify that our products comply with all relevant EU directives (CE mark).
Because of the wide range of applications with which our instruments are used, and over
which we have no control, additional protection devices and operating procedures may
be necessary due to specific accident prevention regulations, safety regulations, further
EEA directives or locally valid regulations. The extent of our delivery regarding
protective devices is defined in your initial sales quotation. We are thus free of liability in
this respect.
At your request, we will gladly provide advice and quotations for additional safety
devices such as protective shielding, warning signs or methods of restricting access to
the equipment.
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