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Preliminary Pages
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 that are
potentially hazardous, particularly the actuator in a servohydraulic testing system or
the moving crosshead in an electromechanical testing system.
Carefully read all relevant manuals and observe 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.
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.
The following pages detail various general warnings that you must heed at all times
while using materials testing equipment. You will find more specific Warnings and
Cautions in the text whenever a potential hazard exists.
Your best safety precautions are to gain a thorough understanding of the equipment
by reading your instruction manuals and to always use good judgement.
It is our strong recommendation that you should carry out your own product safety
risk assessment.
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