Changes to Safety Colors in ANSI Z535.1-2017
Effectively communicating hazards is crucial for activities engaged with machinery. The reasoning for this is simple: hazards will always be present. However, it is inadequate […]
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ISO Type A-B-C Structure for Machinery Standards
Machinery plays a crucial role in numerous industries. However, tasks involving machinery always bear some level of risk, as hazards emerge during the design, construction, […]
ANSI/PLASTICS B151.1-2017 – Safety Requirements for Injection Molding Machines
The global market for injection molding, the process of injecting molten plastic materials into a mold before solidifying them, was valued at $199.88 billion in […]
ANSI/ASSE Z244.1-2016 – Control of Hazardous Energy: Lockout, Tagout, and Alternative Methods
Hazardous energy – whether deriving from electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, or thermal sources in machinery and equipment – is the basis of a longstanding […]
Safety Requirements for Packaging Machinery
According to ANSI/PMMI B155.1-2016 – Safety Requirements for Packaging Machinery and Packaging-Related Converting Machinery, safe is “the state of being protected from recognized hazards likely […]
Behavioral Based Safety
OSHA estimates that prior to 1970, 14,000 workers were killed on the job every year, an annual amount that has decreased by almost 70 percent […]
Safety of Machinery – Emergency Stop Function
ISO 13850:2015 – Safety of machinery – Emergency stop function – Principles for design puts into effect guidelines that are based on the idea that […]
Requirements for Amusement Machines and Personal Service Machines
Our last post focused on a standard for gesture-based user interfaces, which are common in the wide selection of information and communications technology (ICT) devices […]