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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 | |
It is wrong to regard risk assessment as a burden. It is a helpful process that provides vital information and empowers the user or designer to take logical decisions about ways of achieving safety.
There are various standards that cover this subject. ISO 14121: “Principles for risk assessment” and ISO 12100: “Safety of machinery—Basic principles” contain the most globally applied guidance.
Which ever technique is used to carry out a risk assessment, a cross functional team of people will usually produce a result with wider coverage and better balance than one individual.
Risk assessment is an iterative process; it will be performed at different stages of the machine life cycle. The information available will vary according to the stage of the life cycle. For example, a risk assessment conducted by a machine builder will have access to every detail of the machine mechanisms and construction materials but probably only an approximate assumption of the machine’s ultimate working environment. A risk assessment conducted by the machine user would not necessarily have access to the in-depth technical details but will have access to every detail of the machines working environment. Ideally the output of one iteration will be the input for the next iteration.