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Common Safety Hazards in Manufacturing Industries
October 13, 2021
Manufacturing appears in nearly every modern industry, from automotive to food and beverage processing to packaging and beyond. However, there are many risks unique to production operations. Manufacturing any component involves heavy machinery, moving vehicles, automated robotic systems, and many other potential safety hazards.
In any workplace, the number one priority is to keep workers and employees safe and uninjured while maintaining an efficient production output. We’re here to help you identify safety hazards in your workplace, assess solutions, and implement safety protocols to protect the health and well-being of workers within your manufacturing facility...
Using Functional Safety to Improve Food Processing Productivity
September 30, 2021
Functional safety is a system designed to prevent dangerous failures automatically. When these failures are not preventable, functional safety components work together to control the resulting risk and hazards. Functional safety exists to keep workers safe and production environments free from or at an acceptable level of risk. However, a secondary impact of functional safety systems includes an increased efficiency of production within manufacturing plants...
Functional Safety in Food Processing
September 30. 2021
Designing a functional safety system involves assessing risks, identifying solutions to those risks, and integrating machine safety devices. Having functional safety that works as designed is critically important within the food and beverage industry, where hygiene, cleanliness, and safety are paramount.
At elobau, we have the industry knowledge and hands-on experience to help you determine which aspect of functional safety best fits your application. We can create a customized machine safety solution for your food and beverage processing plant...
Functional Safety
August 31, 2021
Functional safety systems aim to reduce or eliminate the risk of physical injury or damage to people interacting with industrial equipment or processes. Functional safety is achieved when, and only when, every specified safety function has been successfully carried out, and risk has been reduced to an acceptable level.
For nearly fifty years, elobau has been an industry leader in machine safety and fail-safe systems. Our expertise has helped industrial workplaces around the world achieve and establish functional safety within their workplaces. Our safety sensors and safety controllers have minimized risk in a vast range of industries as components within functional safety systems...
Machine Safety and Process Safety
August 26, 2021When it comes to establishing machine safety and lowering risk in an industrial workplace, many people are often confused by Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) and Performance Levels (PL). This confusion is expected as the two terms and their associated standards work toward the same result: eliminating or minimizing hazards and risks within industrial workplaces.
Both SIL and PL measure the reduction in risk provided by a safety function of a control system. However, they do deviate from one another in significant ways. Continue reading about machine safety and process safety...