ISO/DIS 13849 – 1 was made available for public review on 2020-06-07. If you are not familiar with ISO lingo, the “DIS” in the number stands for “Draft International Standard.” When an…
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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…
Read MoreCSA Z432 Safeguarding of Machinery – 3rd Edition
If you build machinery for the Canadian market, or if you modify equipment in Canadian workplaces, you will be familiar with CSA Z432, Safeguarding of Machinery. This standard has been…
Read MoreWhy YOU need a Product Safety Certification Strategy that Works!
How compliance efforts go wrong Clients call me when they have problems. They sent some product to a certification body, some tests were done, and the product failed. Now what? Usually,…
Read MoreOverlapping standards: Why do we have so many ??
This post was updated on 13-Jun-16 If you’re one of my regular readers, you know that I make heavy reference to technical standards in my posts. One of the questions that…
Read MoreCSA Z1002 Public Review – Only 15 days left!
Only 15 days remain to get your thoughts submitted on the draft of CSA Z1002. Do it now!
Read MoreCSA Z1002 Risk Assessment Standard – 60 Day Public Review
Get more information on CSA Z1002. The draft of this document is now available for public review through CSA.
Read MoreManufacturing Automation Round Table
On September 21st, I participated in a round table discussion sponsored by Manufacturing Automation magazine. We covered a lot of ground in the discussions, touching on harmonization of machinery safety standards, application of…
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