How can this be? How could machine safety be more simple and easy than hard wiring 50 or 100 relays back to a machine control system? We’ve been doing it this way for over 30 years and our machine up time is above average at 68%!  How many of us have heard this story? We’ll, the safety landscape has changed! Industry has new ...

Some folks in machine safety are off learning about European standards like IEC 60204, IEC 62061, and the October 2006 updated ISO 13849-1. These standards talk about the safe guarding of machines and use terms like; SIL (Safety Integrity Level), PL (Performance Level), MTTFD  (Mean Time To Fail dangerous), and SIL Claim Limit to mention a ...

Did anyone notice that we are about to enter a new paradigm in safety?  I am fortunate enough to be on a committee that writes changes to regulations. The committee is a great group of people to work with, and we try very hard to make sure the regulations keep up with available technology. It’s been two years since NFPA 79, the ...

I got an interesting question this week from one of our sales people.  He told me that a competitor, new to the process safety market, supplied his customer with a list of their users who are compliant with 29CFR1910.119.  He wondered if we had a similar list or a way to neutralize their insinuation that their system was better ...