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Today’s safest manufacturers are those that make safety an integral part of what they do every day; those that engage employees in their safety goals, get leadership commitment, and manage and measure their risks regularly.
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Press brakes are especially dangerous pieces of machinery that require operator caution, regular maintenance, and protective safeguards. Used extensively in the forming of sheet metal and plate materials, press brakes are a frequent cause of amputations and crushing injuries.
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The inability to retain or fill positions could have significant productivity consequences that could create greater worker safety challenges for manufacturers. Why? Because workers who are under pressure to boost productivity can feel compelled to take shortcuts to meet their targets.
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Don’t let emergency stop buttons and pull cords lull you into a false sense of security. They’re the conveyor equivalent of the engine oil light on your car’s dashboard: If the light goes on — or you’re reaching for the emergency stop button — it may be too late.
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The BID R03K, a non-contact transponder-coded safety sensor, is excellent for monitoring protective doors, gates and guards. Uniquely identifying passive RFID transponders ensures high coding levels for high protection against manipulation.
The compact size, large response range and insensitivity to vibration make it ideal for dirty, dusty environments, compensating for door misalignment and allows flexible integration into applications up to PLe and SIL 3.
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In order to help protect your operation, it is important to create a comprehensive safety and security plan before an incident occurs, not after. A proactive security strategy can help to protect your company from losses and ensure your brand’s reputation is not damaged. When building a plan, the first step is to identify the major threats to your company.
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One of the big challenges that control systems designers and safety engineers face is the relationship between machinery risk and control system reliability. Machinery safety standards began introducing the idea of control reliability, more often called functional safety, back in the early 1990s.
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It’s a belief that has persisted for decades — safety and productivity are squarely at odds with each other in the manufacturing environment. Safety has traditionally been associated with compliance, while productivity has been associated with competitiveness — both with separate, sometimes competing, paths to meet their individual goals.
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