Practical Machinery Safety

Description:

Practical Machinery And Automation Safety For Industry aims to provide you with the knowledge to tackle machinery safety control problems at a basic and practical level whilst achieving compliance with national and international standards.
The book highlights the major international standards that are used to support compliance with EU regulations and uses these standards as a basis for the design procedures. It looks at the risk assessment processes used to identify hazards and to quantify the risks inherent in a machine. It introduces the concepts of safety categories as defined by standard EN954-1 (Safety of Machinery) and illustrates the principles of failsafe design, fault tolerance and self-testing.
It also provides an introduction to machinery protection devices such as guards, enclosures with interlocks and guard-monitoring relays, locking systems, safety mats, photo-electric and electro-sensitive principles and the application of light curtains, a study of Safety Control System techniques, and introduces the principles of safety-certified PLCs.

 

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to the machinery safety workshop
2. Guide to Regulations and Standards
3. Risk Assessement and Risk Reduction
4. Design Procedures For Safety Controls
5. Emergency Stops and the Safety Relay
6. Sensors and devices for machinery protection
7. Application Guidelines for Protection Devices
8. Programmable Systems for Safety Controls
9. Introduction to Standards for Programmable Systems