Supply, installation, servicing and retro-fitting of DC brakes to woodworking equipment and machinery.

To comply with PUWER - Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) Many woodworking machines are now legally required to STOP within 10 seconds. DC injection braking is a PUWER 98 approved method of stopping AC electric motors and requires the mains supply to be present to operate correctly.

Under Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) the following list of machinery now require to be braked.

Equipment that requires a DC brake.

circular saw benches
dimension saws
powered and hand-fed cross-cut saws (unless there is no risk of contact with the blade during rundown)
single-end and double-end tenoning machines and combined machines incorporating a circular saw and/or tenoning attachment
narrow band saws
re-saws
vertical spindle moulding machines (unless fitted with a manual or foot-.operated brake)
hand-fed routing machines
thicknessing machines
planing /thicknessing machines
surface planing machines.

PUWER 98 gives more details about the legal requirements and regulations around DC brakes and woodworking machinery and you can read more about it on the Health and Safety Executive website here: PUWER 98: - Retrofitting of braking to woodworking machines

D.C. Brakes and the Law

If you have existing machinery that falls into one of the categries listed and it is not braked, you need to look at retrofitting. We can design, supply and fit a custom solution for each machine at very competitive prices.