Electronic Control and Protective Systems from the Safety Point of View

摘要

This report presents results from FOA investigations commissioned by the National Board of Occupational Safety and Health to help develop criteria for evaluating control and protective systems for factory machines, with electronic control systems in particular. The report deals with these systems from the standpoint of worker safety and, based on previously used methods of analysis, it is intended to elucidate problems involved in the transition from electromechanics to electronics. These problems involve, on the other hand, personal safety as such and, on the other, the feasibility of the product safety analysis that is necessary to guarantee occupational safety.