Machine safety inspection giveaway

Leuze electronic will celebrate 20
years in the UK at the Drives &
Controls exhibition running from the
8th to 10th June at the NEC,
Birmingham by giving away a day’s
Machine Safety Inspection worth
£750, each day of th

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Prevents accidental lockin in dangerous areas

SERV Trayvou Interverrouillage
(STI) has launched the NXO1LTC, a
new access interlock with personnel
key for harsh or corrosive
environments. It consists of a lock
with two key slots that work on a
free key / trapped ke

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Warning range

Klaxon Signals has developed an all
encompassing range of industrial
warning devices to meet the needs of
specialised applications in all
industrial environments. The range
varies from traditional robust motor
driven si

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Versatile PAT tester

The latest addition to Seaward’s
range of portable appliance testers
incorporates a range of electrical
safety tests to ensure that workplace
electrical equipment does not pose a
danger to users.

The new hand held Pri

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Good vibrations

Tests carried out by the HSE have
demonstrated that vibration
exposure for operators using
pneumatic torque multipliers to
tighten wheel nuts was 10 times
lower than when traditional impact
wrenches are used. The Norbar

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Emergency stop

A modular Emergency Stop (E-stop)
is the latest addition to Fortress
Interlock’s eGard range of access and
control products. The E-stop module
can simply be combined with any
controls, switches and/or interlocks of
the

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Have FAITH, it meets SIL3

An FMEDA Report by Exida has
shown the Netherlocks Partial Stroke
System to meet SIL 3. The report
showed the FAITH (Fail Action Integrity
Test Handling) system to be very
reliable, with 0 Fail Safe Detected, Fail
Safe

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Standards warning

Many machine manufacturers may be
inadvertently relying on out-of-date
standards to demonstrate compliance
with the Machinery Directive warns
safety and compliance consultant,
Laidler Associates.

Only standards harmon

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Photoelectric sensor

New from SICK (UK), the
WLL180T photoelectric sensor with
fibre-optic cable boasts a response
time of just 16µs and has been
developed to enable rapid, reliable
object detection of fast production
processes, even in har

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Limit switches

Rockwell Automation has added to
the Allen-Bradley 440P limit switch
family with rugged metal-bodied
models in a compact
22mm housing.

The 22mm compact
metal 440P limit
switches offer
economical
international-style

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