Product Description

Practical Machinery Safety aims to provide you with the knowledge to tackle machinery safety control problems at a practical level whilst achieving compliance with national and international standards.
The book highlights the major international standards that are used to support compliance with EU regulations and uses these standards as a basis for the design procedures. It looks at the risk assessment processes used to identify hazards and to quantify the risks inherent in a machine. It introduces the concepts of safety categories as defined by standard EN954-1 (Safety of Machinery) and illustrates the principles of failsafe design, fault tolerance and self-testing.
It also provides an introduction to machinery protection devices such as guards, enclosures with interlocks and guard-monitoring relays, locking systems, safety mats, photo-electric and electro-sensitive principles and the application of light curtains, a study of Safety Control System techniques, and introduces the principles of safety-certified PLCs.

1. Plan and implement safety systems that deliver a safe working environment and compliance with national and international standards.
2. Apply simple risk assessments and hazard design methods to your own projects
3. Identify hazards that occur with machinery and know how to deal with them

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1223707 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 289 pages

Review
"..a very practical and useful book which is well worth reading and studying" HEALTH AND SAFETY REVIEW, Jan/Feb 2005 "...provides an excellant source of reference and information on machinery safety...effectively provides a comprehensive guide to machinery safety." Health and Safety at work, Oct. 2005

Review
"..a very practical and useful book which is well worth reading and studying"
HEALTH AND SAFETY REVIEW, Jan/Feb 2005

"...provides an excellant source of reference and information on machinery safety...effectively provides a comprehensive guide to machinery safety."
Health and Safety at work, Oct. 2005

From the Back Cover
* Plan and implement safety systems that deliver a secure working environment and compliance with national and international standards, including EN954-1 (Safety of Machinery)
* Gain an understanding of failsafe design, fault tolerance and self-testing
* Coverage includes machinery protection devices, safety control system techniques and safety-certified PLCs

This "Practical" series provides practical professional-level resources in key and emerging technologies designed specifically for engineers and technicians who need to get up to speed in new areas or reinforce and update their knowledge in their existing specialization.

The books are ideal for continuing professional development - through independent study, in-house seminars, or corporate training courses. They also provide the comprehensive coverage needed by professional engineers seeking a hands-on reference guide. For students the practical engineering knowhow makes these books the perfect antidote to theoretical course texts.

Written by leading engineers and trainers, this series has been developed by IDC Technologies, an international training company with courses running in 30 cities in the USA, UK, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Ireland, the Middle East, New Zealand and South Africa. Over 120,000 worldwide have attended IDC workshops.

Also in the series:
* Practical Industrial Safty, Risk Assessment and Shutdown Systems, ISBN: 0-7506-5804-5
* Practical Machinery Vibration Analysis & Predictive Maintenance, ISBN: 0-7506-6275-1

Customer Reviews

One of few
There seem to be precious few books on this topic.

Unfortunately, a lot of this book seems to be rehashed from various suppliers of safety equipment. Several companies (Pilz, Siemens, Omron, AB) produce excellent explanations of safety concepts.

I would have liked to see more case studies: Here's a machine, here's the risk accessment, here's what we used.

It might also have been interesting to look at some accident investigations.

Does explain SIL levels, and discusses safety networks.