SICK runs practical machinery-safety workshops

A SICK (UK) product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Dec 23, 2008

SICK UK will run hands-on seminars throughout 2009 on the new BS EN 13849 and BS EN 62061 machinery safety regulations.

Seb Strutt, safety product manager at SICK, said: 'The best way to get to grips with the new standards is actually applying them in a factory floor environment.

'The seminars are designed to provide a thorough review of the practical steps necessary to identify and achieve the requirements.

'Our experience is that theory is best reinforced by practical examples.

'Working through real examples allows the wider and broader implications of the regulations to fall into place and make sense.' EN 62061 and EN IS0 13849-1 will become the core standards for the design, implementation and validation of machinery-related control systems, in place of EN 954.

The one-day workshop offered by SICK introduces engineers to the two safety-control standards and gives a working understanding of their content and application.

Worksheets with action cues will summarise each standard and worked examples will help make complicated issues digestible.

Delegates will require some knowledge of safety-related control systems.

The course is relevant to control engineers, maintenance engineers, design engineers and project managers.

Further information can be found on SICK's website.

The first 2009 seminar dates will be on 20 January in Wakefield and 21 January in St Albans.

February seminars are planned for Dublin and the midlands.

SICK has also published 'Six Steps to a Safe Machine', covering laws and directives, risk assessment, safe design, protective measures, residual risk, overall validation and placing onto the market.

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