Machinery Safety 101
26 June, 2017

ISO 13849 – 1 Analysis — Part 8: Fault Exclusion

by Doug Nix
in Canada, CE Mark, Control Functions, Control Reliability, Emergency Stop, EU Robotics, Functional Safety, How to, Interlocks, International Robotics, ISO 13849, North American Robotics, Robotics, Standards
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series How to do a 13849 – 1 analysis

Post updated 2019-07-24. Ed. Fault Con­sid­er­a­tion & Fault Exclu­sion ISO 13849 – 1, Chapter 7 [1, 7] dis­cusses the need for fault con­sid­er­a­tion and fault exclu­sion. Fault con­sid­er­a­tion is the pro­cess of examin­ing the… 

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21 June, 2011

Hockey Teams and Risk Reduction or What Makes Roberto Luongo = PPE

by Doug Nix
in Canada, Control Functions, EU European Union, General, Guards and Guarding, Hazards, Hierarchy of Controls, International, Risk Assessment /
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Canucks Hockey Flag
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Hier­archy of Controls

Spe­cial Co-Author, Tom Doyle Last week we saw the Boston Bru­ins earn the Stan­ley Cup. I was root­ing for the green, blue and white, and the ruin of my voice on… 

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28 February, 2011

Understanding the Hierarchy of Controls

by Doug Nix
in Canada, CE Mark, Complementary Protective Measures, Control Functions, Control Reliability, Emergency Stop, EU European Union, Functional Safety, General, Guards and Guarding, Hazardous Energy Control Procedures, Hierarchy of Controls, Interlocks, Interlocks, Lockout, Ontario, Risk Assessment, Robotics, USA /
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The Hierarchy of Controls illustrated as an inverted triangle with each level of the hierarchy written one above the other, starting with Inherently Sfe design, then Engineering Controls, then Information for Use, then Administrative Controls and finally descending to PPE at the bottom. An arrow with the text "Effectiveness" on it runs parallel to the triangle and points downward from Inherently safe design to PPE.
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Hier­archy of Controls

(Eds. note: This art­icle was ori­gin­ally writ­ten in 2011 and was updated in Nov. 2018.) The “Hier­archy of Con­trols” is one approach to risk reduc­tion that has become entrenched in the… 

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