User Manual

SAFETY
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PNSPO
9.0 Glossary
European standards defines technical principles and specifications to help designers
and manufacturers in achieving safety in the design of machinery for professional and
non-professional purposes. It may also be used for other technical products having
similar hazards.
9.1 Definitions
Hazard
A source of possible injury or damage to health.
Hazardous situation
Any situation in which a person is exposed to a hazard or to hazards.
Danger zone
Any zone within and/or around machinery in which a person is exposed
to risk of injury or damage to health.
Design of a machine
A series of actions including:
a) The study of the machine itself, taking into account all phases of its “life”:
1. Construction
2. Transport and commissioning
- assembly, installation,
- adjustment
3. Use
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setting, teaching / programming or process changeover
- operation
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cleaning,
- fault finding,
- maintenance,
4) De-commissioning, dismantling and, as far as safety is concerned,
disposal.
Safety device
Device (other than a guard) which eliminates or reduces risk, alone or associated
with a guard.
Enabling (control) device
Additional manually operated control device used in conjunction with a start control
and which, when continuously actuated, allows a machine to function.
Safety distance
The minimum distance a protective structure shall be placed from a danger zone.
Direct contact
Contact of persons or livestock with live parts.
Indirect contact
Contact of persons or livestock with exposed conductive parts which have become
live under fault conditions.