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Practical solutions for occupational health and safety at company level

The GHS Column Model as an aid to selecting substitute substances

Under the German Hazardous Substances Ordinance, firms are required to replace hazardous substances if possible with substances with a lower health risk. As an aid to the assessment of possible...

Why should chemical protective gloves be used?

Information on materials, guides to the selection of glove materials, labelling and standardisation

Testing of the electrical equipment of machines

DIN EN 60204-1 (2007), "Safety of machinery – Electrical equipment of machines – General requirements" is a harmonized (Type B) European standard ...

Safe laser printers and copiers

Modern office workflows would be difficult to imagine without laser printers and copiers. This makes it all the more important to use low-pollution types.

Protective measures on revolving doors

For the prevention of accidents on automatic revolving doors, the IFA, with the support of the...

Power drive systems with integrated safety functions

IFA presents a provision which is to be applied during the testing and certification of PDS (SR).

Logic units to ensure safety functions

On 29 December 2009, application of the new Machinery Directive, 2006/42/EC, becomes mandatory. One of the associated changes concerns "logic units to ensure safety functions".

Practical guides for application and interpretation as well as background information on standards about Functional safety of machine controls and their practical application (BGIA Report, SISTEMA, PLC disc, …)

Software

IFA provides software for use at company site.

Incentive to bypass protective devices

More than one third of all protective devices on metalworking machines are bypassed by tampering. This increases hazard and the likelihood of accidents. The incentive to bypass protective devices on machines can be evaluated by meams of an assessment matrix.

Performance Level Calculator - PLC

To easily determine the performance level (PL) of safety related control systems for machinery the PLC disc can be used. It has been developed by IFA with support of ZVEI and VDMA.