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Basic OSHA Requirements for a Control Reliable Safety Circuit

Control reliability is a benchmark for the design of safety control circuits. There are several Categories of circuits for safety systems. Here we discuss the basic wiring designs of a safety circuits, to help you fulfill OSHA requirements and meet the conditions of a specific Performance Levels (PL) and Safety Integrity Levels (SIL).

Duration: 1 hour
Recording hosted by Machine Design magazine

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Minimum Distances for Safety Control Measures

Master the art of calculating and implementing minimum safe distances. Discover the crucial factors behind implementing fixed guards and presence sensing safety devices, including the essential considerations for their strategic placement to ensure compliance and effectiveness in risk reduction.

Duration: 1 hour
Recording hosted by Machine Design magazine

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Basic Requirements of Lockout Tagout

Lockout Tagout is consistently on OSHA’s top ten safety violations year after year. In this webinar, Devin Murray defines the importance of lockout tagout, its scope, the basic elements of an energy control program and alternative measures.

Duration: 1 hour

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Risk Assessment

A machine safety risk assessment is a crucial step for safeguarding industrial equipment. In this presentation, Devin Murray discussed the basic needs, requirements, and processes for an effective and efficient risk assessment procedure. This includes hazard identification, risk estimation, and risk reduction as defined by various consensus standards and regulations.

Duration: 1 hour

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Applying ISO 13849 Functional Safety to Machines in the USA

Functional safety and Performance Levels are key elements behind the global-harmonized machine safety standard ISO 13849. This webinar provides an overview of the standard, when and how to use it, how it relates to machine safety in the USA and a look at misconceptions surrounding the standard.

Duration: 1 hour

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Commonly Overlooked & Misapplied Machine Safety Requirements

Machine safety can be challenging and complex, for both machine builder and user.  Many times, it is difficult to stay up to date on all applicable safety standards and guidelines. With so many safety aspects to consider, it is easy to overlook crucial elements to successfully implement a safety measure. This webinar provides guidance and answers.

Duration: 1 hour

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Building A Machine Safety Mindset

Avoid inconsistent machine safety methodologies amongst EHS, Engineering design, and maintenance professionals in a workplace. This webinar discusses the steps of building a machine safety mindset to achieve a more uniform company machine safety policy.

Duration: 1 hour

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Risk Assessment Methods for Machine Safety and Cobots

Part of building a Machine Safety Mindset is creating a risk assessment program for all EHS, engineering design, and maintenance staff in your company. Peter Rigakos explored current risk assessment methods and the fundamental approach to creating a risk assessment program for your company in this webinar.

Duration: 1 hour

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Why Machine Safety Is Not Complete without Validation

When a machine is upgraded to meet the requirements issued by a machine safety risk assessment, the system needs to be tested to ensure it functions as intended. This webinar examines why Validation is needed to ensure we are designing, installing, and testing safety systems correctly, along with the steps associated with completing a successful Validation.

Duration: 1 hour

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How To Create An Effective Machine Safety Training

Is there a right way to present machine safety? Safety training often gets the bad reputation of being dull, making the process ineffectual. Learn effective ways to avoid the boredom and integrate training into your machine safety mindset.

Duration: 1 hour

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General Machine Guarding I:
Separating Guards

Basic concepts of machine guarding: monitoring guard doors

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General Machine Guarding II:
Non-Separating Guards

Basic concepts of machine guarding: E-Stops and presence sensing devices

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Safety System Control
Architectures

How devices should be connected to meet Control Categories, Performance Level.

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