What We Do
Cat4 Safety provides expertise on machinery safety, including risk assessment, risk reduction, and functional safety
Guidance
Machinery safety is a complex business with legislation, regulations and standards to navigate through. Cat4 Safety will provide expert guidance to help and support you.
Training
With over 30 years experience in national and international standards development Cat4 Safety is perfectly placed to provide training on machinery safety standards…..and we make Standards Training fun! (Entertrainment!!)
Consultancy
Cat4 Safety can work with your existing safety engineers and professional to plan and create an effective machinery safety program to keep your business productive and safe.
MACHINERY SAFETY CASE STUDY
The Secrets of Successful Risk Reduction
Note Risk Reduction rather than safeguarding, it encompasses more than just “safeguards”. Creating a zero risk environment is an impossible goal and those that pursue this impossibility invariably make risk reduction measures more likely to be defeated in a bid by employees to actually make something. We can however significantly reduce risk and get risk to an acceptable level by following a few simple steps.
DESIGN OUT
At the machinery design stage look to reduce operator interventions, and eliminate hazards.
INCLUDE OPERATORS
It is critical to involve the machine users in the risk assessment process – they know their job, what will hold them up and what makes their life easier.
REVIEW TASKS
Identifying tasks will help you identifiy the hazards. A task based risk assessment is a great approach. We hope to see more of this approach when ISO 12100 is revised.
MOTIVATION TO DEFEAT
Defeating of interlocks is a critical issue and is an outcome of implemeting poorly designed risk reduction measures. Check out the Stop-Defeating site for more guidance by clicking here
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