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The European directive 2006/42/CE promulgates the machine safe design principles to prevent professional risks. However, outside machines that have specific safety standards, the designers of special machines and manufacturing systems can…

This paper describes some results of ongoing work, in the joint INRS-ENSAM laboratory, on the integration of risk prevention in specifications for future working equipment (specialized machines, individual workstations, assembly lines, etc…

Despite the advances made in terms of knowledge of the design process and activity, and in spite of an increasingly comprehensive normative system, putting the approach termed « integrated prevention » laid down in the « Machinery » Directive into…

With technological improvements and regulation evolutions, the work of product designers change too. They have to work on different aspects of a product such as technological, legal, environmental and safety at work. The European directive 2006…

Safe design of work equipment is a regulatory obligation. To be effective, this concept of “safety by design” needs to be based on an overall vision of “working situations”.
In order to address this issue, INRS is proposing two complementary approaches…

With the aim of addressing the SME’s population, INRS (National Research Institute for Safety and Health) developed an online tool called MAVImplant, dedicated to the design of virtual workplace mockups. The SME’s strategy draws on the idea of proposing…

The progress made in recent years in the area of digital vision systems now leaves more scope for designing human detection devices based on this technology.
One of the main difficulties for the design of such a device is linked to the need to identify…

In view of the mechanical risks generated by industrial robotics, robots are isolated from humans by physical protective barriers, the work zones dedicated to robots being identified and marked out, thereby preventing any action by humans within…

To define design methods aimed at promoting the integration of ergonomics, a generic view of a design method is firstly proposed. The article then goes on to present the main industrial approaches to product design and, for each of them, highlights…