Health & Safety Matters

Integrated switch function

Industrial safety
specialist Fortress
Interlocks has
integrated a key
switch function into
key exchange units,
making it possible
to isolate the power
and release access
keys in one
operation.

The XMR unit
simpl

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Complies with EN ISO 13849-1

British safety switch manufacturer,
Mechan Controls, has announced that
its ISIS Coded Magnetic Safety System
has undergone independent testing,
which has confirmed its compliance
with the new international
standard for

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Earth leakage protection

The EFR-2 Earth
Leakage Protection
Relay from FDB is
part of their
Optima range of
low cost, high
specification RCDs.

It is especially
suited to protection
of all types of
electrical machinery
for the benefit of

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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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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inadvertently relying on out-of-date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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Oseco rupture discs available from Elfab

Elfab has confirmed that it will
continue to supply replacement
Oseco rupture discs to Oseco
customers in Europe and the rest of
the world (ROW).

Halma, parent company of Elfab
and Oseco, implemented a group
rupture

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