SICK Machine Safety Seminar
SICK invites you to attend a machine safety seminar, “Understanding the new global standards — what you need to know to implement machine safety.”
In today’s global economy, safety regulations not only impact your machines in North America… but also in Asia, Australia, and Europe. For example, new European safety regulations take effect at the end of 2009. If you are a global company, you need to know about the coming risk assessment requirements and the differences in how safety is implemented... are you ready?
This comprehensive, one-day safety seminar is led by international safety experts who will discuss the information you need to collect and document to ensure compliance with the new requirements.
Agenda:
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
9:15 a.m. Regulation Update
• New Machine Directive
• Global Standards ISO/IEC versus ANSI/UL/CSA
10:30 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Future Ways to Ensure Machine Safety
• Safety Agreement between User and Supplier
• Risk Assessment Methods
• New Safety Control Concepts (EN ISO 13849-1)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Application Examples (Robot, Press Brake, Packaging)
• How To... Safety Functions
• Comparison between North American/Global Safety Concepts
2:45 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Do's and Don'ts on Machine Safety
• Common Mistakes Using Safeguarding
• Tips on Safety Circuit and Software Design
4:30 p.m. Open discussion