How to de-energize equipment

Force guided relays maintain machine guarding circuit integrity

September 9, 2019

Safety circuits used in machine guarding applications incorporate devices such as sensors and relays to de-energize equipment if any hazardous condition is detected. These conditions normally involve a machine guard not being closed, a presence sensor detecting personnel in an unsafe area or the triggering of an emergency stop function.

Klosterman Baking Co. continues hazard despite worker’s amputation

November 16, 2016

Just five weeks after a 28-year-old maintenance worker lost part of his right arm in an improperly guarded bread wrapping machine at the Cincinnati-based Klosterman Baking Co., federal safety inspectors investigating the injury found another worker exposed to the same hazard.

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ISHN Magazine

2019 September

Among the articles in the September 2019 issue of ISHN Magazine, we have expert insight on wellness programs, workplace risk management, the latest in safety technology, and much more.

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