Seminar success

With a full audience of over 50, the inaugural Machinery Safety Alliance 'blast off' seminar at Leicester's National Space Exhibition saw founding members - Pilz Automation Technology, Festo, Fortress Interlocks, Werma and Troax - make presentations to a diverse audience from the automotive, paper making and converting, food, packaging, consultative, building materials, material handling and automation sectors. The Health and Safety Laboratory opened and closed proceedings, giving a unique perspective to what has been a wellreceived event.

Founder of the group, David Collier from Pilz, says: "Overall, machine safety is not rocket science; it's about preventing people getting hurt by machines at work. The complicated part comes when safety functions have to be designed, verified and validated - which we seek to demystify during our seminars - but on the whole our aim is to address the wide range of issues, standards and technologies relevant to machine safety."