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CANADA MACHINE SAFETY
The Ministry of Labor and OHS / OSHA in different Canadian provinces require safe working conditions for all employees. Different provinces have slight variations in employment standards but in general all provinces require safe working conditions. These safe working conditions can be demonstrated by complying with one or more of the applicable recognized machine safety standards:
- CAN/CSA-Z142 – Punch Press and Brake Press Operation:
- CAN/CSA-Z434 – Industrial Robots and Robot Systems
- CSA-Z432 – Safeguarding of Machinery
- ANSI/B11.01 – Mechanical Power Presses
- ANSI/B11.02 – Hydraulic Power Presses
- ANSI/B11.03– Power Press Brakes (OSHA-CPL 2-1.25)
- ANSI/B11.04– Shears
- ANSI/B11.06– Lathes
- ANSI/B11.7 Cold Headers and Cold Formers
- ANSI/B11.08– Drilling, Milling, and Boring
- ANSI/B11.9– Grinding Machines
- ANSI/B11.10– Sawing Machines
- ANSI/B11.11 – Gear Cutting Machines
- ANSI/B11.12– Roll Forming and Roll Bending
- ANSI/B11.13– Automatic Screw/Bar and Chucking Machines
- ANSI/B11.14 – Coil Slitting Machines
- ANSI/B11.15– Pipe, Tube, and Shape Bending Machines
- ANSI/B11.16 – Metal Powder Compacting
- ANSI/B11.17 – Horizontal Hydraulic Extrusion Presses
- ANSI/B11.18 – Coil Processing Systems
- ANSI/B11.19 – Safeguarding Methods
- ANSI/B11.20 – Manufacturing Systems/Cells
- ANSI/B11.21 – Machines Using Lasers
- ANSI/B65.1 – Printing Press Systems
- ANSI/B65.2 – Binding and Finishing Systems
- ANSI/B65.5 – Stand Alone Platen Presses
- ANSI/01.1 – Woodworking Machinery-Safety Requirements
- ANSI/Z244.1 – Lockout/tagout of Energy Sources
- ANSI/Z268.1 – Metal Scrap Processing Equipment
- RIA/ANSI/15.06 – Industrial Robots and Robot Systems
- ANSI/SPI B151.1 – Horizontal Injection Moulding Machines
- ANSI/SPI B151.27 – Robots Used with Horizontal Injection Moulding Machines
- ANSI/Z245.5 – Baling Equipment
- ISO 12100 – Safety of machinery
- ISO 14121 – Safety of machinery – principles of risk assessment
- IEC-61508 (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) – Functional safety
- ISO 13852 – Safety distances to prevent danger zones from being reached by upper limbs
- ISO 13854 – Minimum gaps to avoid crushing of parts of the human body
- ISO 13853 – Safety distances to prevent danger zones from being reached by lower limbs
- ISO 13855 – Hand/arm speed – approach speeds of the human body for positioning protective equipment
- ISO 13851 – Two hand control devices
- ISO 14120 – General requirements for the design and construction of guards
- ISO 14118 – Prevention of unexpected start up
- ISO 14119 – Interlocking devices with and without guard locking
- ISO 13856 (4 parts) – Pressure sensitive protective devices
- IEC 60947 5; 5-1; 5-2; 5-3 – Low voltage switch gear and control gear; Electromechanical control circuit devices; Proximity devices; Proximity devices with defined behaviour under fault conditions
- ISO 4413 – Safety requirements for fluid power systems and components – hydraulics
- ISO 4414 – Safety requirements for fluid power systems and components – pneumatics
- IEC/EN 61496 Parts 1 and 2
- Part 1: Electro sensitive protective equipment – sensing safeguards
- Part 2: Active opto-electronic protective devices – light curtains
- EN 692 – Mechanical presses
- EN 693 – Hydraulic presses, press-brakes, pneumatic presses
- EN 201 – Injection moulding machines
- EN 289 – Compression and transfer moulding presses
- EN 422 – Blow moulding machines intended for the production of hollow articles
- EN 1114 – Extruders and extrusion lines
- EN 1417 – Two roll mills
- EN 1612-1 – Reaction moulding machines
- EN 415-1 – Packaging Machines – Common requirements
- EN 415-2 – Machines for preformed rigid packaging
- EN 415-3 – Form, fill and seal machines
- EN 415-4 – Palletizers and depalletizers
- EN 415-5 – Wrapping machines
- EN 415-6 – Machines to form collective packaging
- EN 415-7 – Machines to ensure cohesion of load units
- EN 1978 – Vegetable cutting machines
- EN 1974 – Slicing machines
- EN 848-1 – One-side moulding machines with rotating tool
- EN 848-3 – Numerically controlled (NC) boring and routing machines
- EN 859 – Hand fed surface planing machines
- EN 860 – One side thickness planing machines
- EN 861 – Surface planing and thicknessing machines
- EN 940 – Combined wood working machines
- EN 1218-2 – Tenoning machines – part 2: double-end tenoning and/or profiling
- EN 1218-4 – Tenoning machines – part 4: edge banding machines fed by chain or chains
- EN 1870-13 – Safety of woodworking machines – circular sawing machines – horizontal beam panel sawing machines
- EN 12750 – Four sided moulding machines
- EN 972 – Reciprocating roller tanning machines
- EN 930 – Roughing, scouring, polishing, and trimming tanning machines
- EN 931 – Footwear manufacturing machines. Lasting machines
- EN 1035 – Moving plate machines
- EN 1845 – Footwear moulding machines
- EN 775 – Manipulating industrial robots
- EN 1525 – Industrial trucks – driverless trucks and their systems
- EN 10472 – Industrial laundry machinery
- EN 11111 – Textile machinery
- EN 12626 – Laser processing machines
Risk Assessment
The above standards requires a documented risk assessment be prepared for all machinery. We regularly conduct and document risk assessments for many industry sectors. For manufacturers who have already put forth this effort it is allowed to use the already documented risk assessment and save costs since self declaration and preparation of required documentation is allowed.
Evaluation and Testing to Standards
The above identified standards identify general and specific hazards that need to be considered and addressed as applicable. Some of the safety principles identified in the standards are often quite general making it difficult for some to apply without being concerned if their interpretation is too conservative or liberal. Our experience enables us to accurately apply the safety principles outlined in the standards to many types of machine designs and identify the proper intent of the requirements.
Safety Related Circuits
Assemblies of certified safety components integrated to achieve safety operation and access to machinery need to be control reliable. These concepts are difficult to understand and use. We have the necessary background and experience to help ensure hazards are suitably categorized and designed to meet these difficult requirements. We prepare Sistema format reports on safety related circuit compliance as a part of our service.
Technical File Preparation
To document your compliance, services for assembly of a technical are offered. Our technical files are prepared in electronic format and consist of the following folders (and more if necessary):
- Photos
- Engineering Evaluation and changes for compliance
- Risk Assessment
- Safety Related Circuit report
- Electrical Circuit diagrams
- Hydraulic and Pneumatic circuit diagrams
- Component specification sheets
- Test Data
- Installation/Operation/Maintenance Manual
- Machine Drawings
- Guard Drawings
- MSDS Sheets
- Folders are also provided for all other applicable compliance efforts for the manufacturer to populate
These folders are populated by us with the information provided during the review when technical file preparation is requested.