A comprehensive guide by SICK AG providing a six-step methodology for ensuring mechanical safety, risk assessment, and compliance with European directives.
This document serves as a guide for manufacturers, operators, designers, and system engineers to implement mechanical safety. It outlines the company's philosophy that safety is a basic requirement and a management task essential for productivity and employee well-being.
The core of the manual presents a six-step process to achieve safe machinery: 1) Risk Assessment, 2) Safety Design, 3) Implementation of Safety Functions, 4) Verification, 5) Commissioning, and 6) User Responsibility. It details how to identify hazards, estimate risks, apply technical protective measures, and integrate safety functions into control systems. This manual is written in Chinese.
The guide is intended for manufacturers, operators, designers, system engineers, and all personnel responsible for mechanical safety.
The first step is Risk Assessment, which involves identifying and evaluating all potential hazards and risk points.