Abstract. Increasingly today more and more complex machinery are designed,
produced or maintained. It causes that the requirements of machines operators
in the scope of assurance protection are progressively higher. As a result new
laws, standards and practices are introduced. These regulations concern all the
machines which are placed into the EU market. In this paper the practical verification
of construction design for safety is done on the example of shaping machines
such as: loathes, milling machines, drilling machines and horizontal boring
machines with the application of existing law. The investigated machines
were offered for sale on Polish market by Internet.