Practical Machinery Safety

By Dave Macdonald

Practical Machinery Safety aims to provide you with the knowledge to tackle machinery safety control problems at a practical level whilst achieving compliance with national and international standards. The book highlights the major international standards that are used to support compliance with EU regulations and uses these standards as a basis for the design procedures. It looks at the risk assessment processes used to identify hazards and to quantify the risks inherent in a machine. It introduces the concepts of safety categories as defined by standard EN954-1 (Safety of Machinery) and illustrates the principles of failsafe design, fault tolerance and self-testing. It also provides an introduction to machinery protection devices such as guards, enclosures with interlocks and guard-monitoring relays, locking systems, safety mats, photo-electric and electro-sensitive principles and the application of light curtains, a study of Safety Control System techniques, and introduces the principles of safety-certified PLCs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750662700
• ISBN13: 9780750662703
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Newnes
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Good guide

Good book for those designing equipment. The one thing to note is that this is definitely written from a European perspective and mostly references EU standards (IEC & such)with limited US standards. I wish there had been more regarding US standards including NFPA79, ANSI B11 and UL.