One-Day Machine Safeguarding Seminar
IN-PERSON FREE TRAINING
Friday, October 1, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET.
Learn Machine Safety Skills to Protect Your Team and Business
Machine safety depends just as much on knowledge as it does on hardware. Even the most thoroughly safeguarded machines can pose a risk if your team lacks an understanding of key safety concepts.
Join us for a completely FREE machine safety seminar introducing the requirements, methods, and practical applications of machine and process safeguarding. Attendees will learn about applicable regulatory requirements to help identify and assess machine safety risks, deploy safeguarding concepts based on identified risks, and minimize any expenses associated with penalties, fines, and accidents.
Here's what you can look forward to:
An Informative Seminar
The seminar's topics include:
• Practical approaches to risk assessment & risk reduction
• Identifying machine and process hazards
• Safeguarding requirements
• Hierarchy of controls
• Requirements for guards
• Overview of safeguarding technology
• Stop time measurements and safety distance formulas, and more
Engaging Discussions
Every session is different based on unique discussion. It's an open forum for the safety topics that matter most to you and your organization.
Hands-On Safety Device Experience
Get hands-on experience with actual machine safeguarding components. Our experts will walk you through real products to learn the intricacies of their functionality.
Friday, October 1, 11:00 am EST.
Streamed through Microsoft Teams (can be watched through web browser)
Boston, ma
Date, time
28 State Route 280, Boston, MA 33018
SPARTANBURG, SC
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Airline Hydraulics Corp., Spartanburg
120 Corporate Dr., Suites G-J, Spartanburg, SC 29303
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CHARLOTTE, NC
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Charlotte – South Park
6300 Carnegie Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28211
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Charleston, SC
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Hilton Garden Inn Charleston/Mt Pleasant
300 Wingo Way, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
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Agenda
| 9:30 - 10:00 am | Sign-in and refreshments |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am | Introduction –The business case for safety |
| 10:20 - 10:30 am | Relevant domestic and international standards |
| 10:30 - 11:15 am | A practical approach to risk assessment and risk reduction |
| 11:15 am - 12:00 pm | Hierarchy of control/risk reduction strategy |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch (provided) – Open discussion |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Guarding technologies and what to specify |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | How to meet safety-related control system performance requirements based on risk level |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm |
Q/A, open discussions, and networking
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Objectives
Upon completion of this class, attendees will be able to:
• Comprehend expectations for machine safety
• Identify hazards on automated/semi-automated equipment
• Assess risk-level on identified hazards and perform a basic machine guarding inspection
• Recognize applicable machine safeguarding regulations and census standards
• Identify appropriate risk reduction measures commensurate with the level of risk
• Understand/apply the Hierarchy of controls
Audience
This course is open for all industries and skill levels, and is intended for any stakeholder in plant safety, or those with responsibilities to reduce machine and process risks.
Presented by:
Omron Automation & Safety is a worldwide company and leading manufacturer of technologically advanced industrial automation products offering unsurpassed application expertise.
Hosted by:
Airline Hydraulics Corp. offers components, engineered systems, and service & repair for the technology fields of fluid power, automation, machine safety, and more.