List of scientific publications

This article proposes a method of choosing sensitive protective equipment (SPE). Incorporated into an overall risk reduction approach like the one proposed by Standard NF EN ISO 12100, it is based firstly on a need specification phase that is essential…

INRS has shown during a meeting of the Club Automation two studies to help small and medium sized enterprises to apply more easily the standards ISO 13849-1 and IEC 62061.

Automated facilities now frequently call upon programmable logic controllers (PLCs) for ensuring personal safety. This obliges us to consider the safety of the software installed in these PLCs and thus the errors likely to affect them. This concern…

Servopresses are innovative machines whose sales are increasing. The evolution of servomotors and the recent arrival on the market of power drive systems including safety functions have contributed to their emergence. For example, servomotors…

Operating machinery, a large number of accidents occur because operators thought they work safely as machine was not safe enough. Yet solutions exist: isolation procedures that include technical and organizational measures. Such measures…

This document is intended to guide designers to perform machinery control systems with only one or a few "basic" safety functions such as emergency stop or movable guard.
Among the available standards for machine design, EN ISO 13849-1 is the one…

The designers of automated systems must increasingly integrate complex components such as Programmable Logic Controllers dedicated to safety or fieldbus dedicated to safety for processing safety functions.
Among the available standards…

Work on a machine or a manufacturing process subjects operators to many risks mostly due to presence of multiple sources of energy (electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, etc.). The paper entitled “Operating on machinery out of production…

The International Conference on the Safety of Industrial Automated Systems, SIAS 2015, organised by the Institut für Arbeitsschutz (IFA) in partnership with other research bodies, was devoted to preventing occupational risks associated with…

Virtual Reality techniques allow us to interact with life-like models and environments in safety. In this work, we propose a Human hand model in order to simulate Man-machine interactions in virtual environments.
Our virtual hand is a multilayer…