About Us

Our Story

Maquina Technical Services Ltd was built from the ground up by Steve Blackshaw, starting in 2019 and now trading as MTS Machine Safety. Before founding the business, Steve spent over 15 years working hands-on with CNC machine tools — Siemens Sinumerik, Heidenhain and Fanuc controls among them — in roles where repair, control-systems work and machine safety were never separate disciplines, but intertwined day to day on the shop floor across aerospace, rail, food processing and precision engineering environments. That background is the reason our approach to PUWER and machine safety risk assessment starts with how a machine actually runs, not just what the regulations say.

Meet the Engineer

Steve Blackshaw, CMSE® – Certified Machinery Safety Expert

Steve holds mechanical and electrical engineering qualifications from the University of Derby (Advanced Apprenticeship and Foundation Degree), and in 2026 achieved CMSE® – Certified Machinery Safety Expert certification, issued by TÜV NORD CERT following training delivered by Pilz. His career has moved between CNC repair, control-systems engineering and machine safety work rather than treating them as separate specialisms — fault-finding on a Heidenhain or Fanuc control and assessing that same machine against EN ISO 12100 and EN ISO 13849 draw on the same underlying understanding of how the equipment actually behaves. That combination gives every assessment and remedial design a genuine engineering foundation — not a checklist applied by someone who has never had to keep a machine running in production.