productProactive tool and equipment
maintenance plays an essential but
often neglected role in helping to
reduce occupational Hand-Arm
Vibration Syndrome, says Phil Wolff
Hand-arm vibration occurs when
the vibrations from
productAs the Machinery Directive EN 13949-1 standards better reflect advances in Machine Safety
System design, these standards should be adopted sooner rather than later, says Kevin Ives
The latest version of the Machinery
D
productProcter Machine Guarding has
updated its publication On Your
Guard – A Designer’s Guide to
Machinery Guarding Standards to
reflect recent changes to standards,
including one of the key machinery
safety standards – EN IS
productBVM Brunner, a manufacturer of
film wrapping packaging machines,
is benefiting from state-of-the-art’
safety solutions from Pilz. To
comply with EN ISO 13849-1, BVM
Brunner carried out renewed
machine risk assessments i
productThe KSD+ from Castell is a new
trapped key interlock power isolator,
suitable for 3-phase currents from 32
to 250A, which is said to
dramatically increase safety
protection over conventional
designs, preventing fail-to-
productLeading supplier of rupture discs,
Elfab, has won a £250k contract to
meet the pressure relief
requirements of a leading British
gas and energy group’s largest ever
investment – a liquified natural gas
(LNG) development
productNew from Hughes Safety Showers is a range of control valves that focuses on durability, reliability and ease of operation. There are five sizes and a range of end connections to step up or down to different pipe sizes.
productRockwell Automation claims to
offer the broadest portfolio of
machine and process safety devices,
systems and services in the world.
This breadth of product offering,
combined with the offerings of its
competitors, me
productStewart Robinson, a safety systems
specialist at Pilz Automation
Technology, will be presenting a
paper entitled ‘Machinery Safety –
PL or SIL, what is the difference’ at
the forthcoming Safety Control
Systems Conferenc
productNew from Newson Gale is a multifunction
portable meter designed to
enable engineers and technicians to
test bonding and continuity in
hazardous areas, in addition to other
electrical data collection. The meter
is said t
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