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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FP2016-091
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…
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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…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FP2015-159
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…
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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…
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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.
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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, NF EN ISO 13849-1 is the…
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The prevention of the isolated worker in France always remains of topicality and raises more and more questions concerning implementation. The studies carried out by the INRS in the years 1980-90 showed the role of isolation acts in the genesis…
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The way companies take into account the issues of working in isolation should not be limited merely to deploying technical solutions of lone worker alarm device type. Those issues should also be addressed through an overall occupational risk…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FP2012-176
In industry, machine users and people who modify or integrate equipment often have to evaluate the safety level of a circuit that they have not necessarily designed. The modifications or integrations may involve work to make an existing machine…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FP2014-007%2FNS315
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…