FDR Safety
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The answers can be determined but only after documented due diligence using Task Based Risk Assessment (past blogs) and assessing feasibility of hazard controls. Most safety professionals are familiar with the Hazard Control Hierarchy shown right. Informative Note 1: Not all potential risk reduction measures are practicable.
FDR Safety
JANUARY 9, 2018
I’m finding clients who have excellent lockout/tagout programs but who have not taken the necessary step of identifying tasks where LOTO is not feasible. During my career in engineering and safety, I have observed thousands of machine setups and other tasks where LOTO is simply not possible.
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FDR Safety
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
national standards dealing with the safety requirements for general industry machines. At the recent ASSE Professional Development Conference, there was considerable focus on risk assessment, voluntary standards and prevention through design. The primary reason to become familiar with ANSI B11 is that it guides risk assessment.
FDR Safety
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
In past years I’ve written about the value of the ANSI B11 standards and risk assessment. After recently concluding a class with a couple of safety pros and larger group of operations executives from a manufacturing company, it occurred to me that what was missing in my blogs was a description of “how” to go about the process.
FDR Safety
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Safety professionals concerned with safety, efficiency and compliance should have the concepts of “acceptable risk” and “feasibility” in the forefront of their thinking. In every case, the “acceptable risk” and “feasibility” of lockout/tagout or machine guarding was the central issue. ANSI B11.0
FDR Safety
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
It chronicles the foundations and evolution that brought those engaged in the practice of engineering and safety to the current state of PTD in one company. Applying lessons learned from individual projects was problematic because no practical risk assessment methodologies were in use. Download The Article Here .
FDR Safety
AUGUST 29, 2018
There are good safety signs, bad safety signs and those that don’t tell you anything. An example of a “bad safety sign” is shown to the right. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK” is an example of this type of sign. I would estimate that only 5-10% of identified high risk task elements result from the hazards of machine motion.
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