THE REQUIREMENTS ON MACHINERY SAFETY AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON OHS EFFECTIVENESS
Abstract
A legislative requirement that specifies the scope for occupational health and safety (OHS) and machinery safety (MS) has been implemented in the EU for 30 years. Basic condition for maintaining OHS is safely constructed and operated machinery / equipment. The obligation of constructors (producer, representative) is to launch only such machinery equipments which do not threaten health and safety of persons, domestic animals or property. The criterion for meeting these regulations is risk assessment. For maintenance activities, there are, in the EU directive on machinery safety (2006/42/ES), set requirements for the isolation of hazardous energy, which may threaten life or health of maintenance workers when performing the required activity. Identification process of this energy must be a part of risk assessment, the result of which is such a construction solution that enables disconnecting from all energy sources in a safe and convenient way together with its lockout. The management methodology of this approach, applied in practice, is called LOTO (Logout/Tagout). Its efficiency and effectivity depend on suitably applied methodology during the analysis of hazardous energy as well as effectivity and efficiency of the process of measure management for its isolation.
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