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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-42/annex-I/division-1/division-n5/division-1.1/division-1.1.1",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2006/42",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-42",
  "path": "annex/I/division/1/division/n5/division/1.1/division/1.1.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1.1.1",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this Annex:\n(a) ‘hazard’ means a potential source of injury or damage to health;\n(b) ‘danger zone’ means any zone within and/or around machinery in which a person is subject to a risk to his health or safety;\n(c) ‘exposed person’ means any person wholly or partially in a danger zone;\n(d) ‘operator’ means the person or persons installing, operating, adjusting, maintaining, cleaning, repairing or moving machinery;\n(e) ‘risk’ means a combination of the probability and the degree of an injury or damage to health that can arise in a hazardous situation;\n(f) ‘guard’ means a part of the machinery used specifically to provide protection by means of a physical barrier;\n(g) ‘protective device’ means a device (other than a guard) which reduces the risk, either alone or in conjunction with a guard;\n(h) ‘intended use’ means the use of machinery in accordance with the information provided in the instructions for use;\n(i) ‘reasonably foreseeable misuse’ means the use of machinery in a way not intended in the instructions for use, but which may result from readily predictable human behaviour.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2006/42/annex/I/division/1/division/n5/division/1.1/division/1.1.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:36.910149+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}