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Safety Strategy
| Introduction |  |
Risk Assessment | |
Machine Limit Determination | |
Task and Hazard Identification | |
Risk Estimation | |
Risk Reduction | |
| Hierarchy of Measures for Risk Reduction | |
Inherently Safe Design | |
Protective Systems and Measures | |
Evaluation | |
Training, Personal Protective Equipment, etc. | |
Standards | |
After the protective measure has been chosen and before it is implemented it is important to repeat the risk estimation. This is a procedure that is often missed. It may be that if we install a protective measure, the machine operator may feel that they are totally and completely protected against the original envisaged risk. Because they no longer have the original awareness of danger, they may intervene with the machine in a different way. They may be exposed to the hazard more often, or they may enter further into the machine for example. This means that if the protective measure fails they will be at a greater risk than envisaged before. This is the actual risk that we need to estimate. Therefore the risk estimation needs to be repeated taking into account any foreseeable changes in the way that people may intervene with the machine. The result of this activity is used to check whether the proposed protective measures are, in fact, suitable. For further information Annex A of IEC/EN 62061 is recommended.