Evolution of safety: The advent of programmable safety systems earmarked a breakthrough in the development of safety products and systems in Australia

摘要

SAFETY is an issue that you could be excused for taking for granted in 2013. But it hasn't always been this way: workers - not employers - were once responsible for the safety of their own bodies and that of the machines they used. According to Machine Safety By Design managing director, Frank Schrever, safety relays and presence sensing systems began surfacing via machinery imported from Europe around the late 1980s. "Safety in terms of machine control systems really started to take off in the late 1990s after the appearance of the first edition of AS 4024 Safeguarding of Machinery in 1996," Schrever told PACE.