What this site is for

European trades work to EN standards, but most safety content online is written for
OSHA and the US. SafetyOrbit exists to close that gap: every guide traces back to the
EN standard that governs it, in plain language, with the markings decoded and the
testing explained.

Nothing on the site is a substitute for competent training or a task-specific risk
assessment. The templates are starting points you adapt to your own site, and the
responsibility for that adaptation stays with you.

How this site is written

SafetyOrbit is written and maintained as a single, consistent library rather
than a collection of posts. Every guide is anchored to the EN standard or EU
directive that governs it, cited by number, so a claim can be traced back to
the document it came from rather than to an opinion.

The standards cited here were last checked against the published catalogue in
August 2026, and stale editions were corrected at that point. Standards get
revised; where a decision turns on an exact test value or class threshold, the
guidance is to obtain the standard rather than rely on a summary.

Nothing here is a substitute for competent training or a task-specific risk
assessment, and nothing here is accredited certification. Where a topic is
governed by national law rather than a European standard — statutory
training being the clearest case — the guidance says so instead of
papering over the difference.

Why EN standards specifically

An EN standard tells you what a piece of equipment was actually tested to withstand.
Read the markings and you know whether a helmet is rated for lateral deformation,
whether a glove was tested against the chemical you are handling, and how much
clearance a fall-arrest system needs below the anchor. That is the difference between
choosing equipment and hoping.

How the site is funded

The library is free to read and always will be: every technique note, every
standard summary, and every template in both PDF and editable Word. The site earns money from the assessed training: the course assessments and completion certificates, and employer plans that supply training material and exportable completion records to companies training their own staff. The whole template library, in both PDF and editable Word, is free with an account. Prices are on the pricing page.

There are no affiliate links on this site. If that changes it will be
disclosed on the page where it appears, as EU and UK rules require.

Corrections

Standards get revised and mistakes happen. If something here is wrong or out of date,
tell us and it gets fixed — corrections are logged, not
quietly edited away.