Content as follows:
Module 1: Introduction to safety
- Introduction to the relevant safety regulations
- Competence and responsibilities
- Introduction to safety management systems
Module 2: Machinery safety
- Legislation relating to the design, manufacture and maintenance of machinery and work equipment
- Conformity requirements and procedures for placing machinery on the market
- Work equipment and workplace regulations
- Taking safety at work into consideration in terms of machines, including ergonomics, noise, vibration and chemical substances
Module 3: Risk assessment
- Risk assessment according to EN ISO 12100 and its application
- Methods for risk assessment using specific examples
- Performing the risk assessment step by step
- Application and usage of further relevant machinery standards within the risk assessment process
- Brief overview of risk reduction after completion of the risk assessment
Module 4: Mechanical safeguards
- International requirements of standards in terms of mechanical safeguards
- Safeguards: Definition, types and examples of applications
- Calculation of safety distances in compliance with EN ISO 13857
Safety components and technologies
- Overview of safety components, requirements and applications
- Specification and use, advantages and disadvantages (e.g. Interlocking devices, light curtains, two-hand control devices)
- Technical and supplementary protective measures (e.g. safety fences, light beam devices, emergency stop command devices)
- Safety relevant applications of control systems
Electrical safety requirements
- A detailed look at EN 60204-1: electrical equipment of plants and machinery
- Considerations of the electrical design, from the infeed up to the proper verification
- Safe operation and maintenance of electrically driven machinery
Module 5: Functional safety of control systems
- Detailed consideration of the requirements of EN ISO 13849
- Specification, draft and validation of functional safety control systems
- Determination of Performance Level (PL) and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) with reference to safety functions
- Choice of architecture using practical examples of implementing categories
- Software lifecycle: requirements and application
- Verification and validation methods
- Introduction to EN IEC 62061
- Practical exercises in PL and SIL validations
Functional safety of fluid engineering
- Requirements of EN ISO 4413 (hydraulic systems) and ISO 4414 (pneumatic systems)
- Required measures for the safe application of hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Special features of hydraulic and pneumatic components
- Design of safety-relevant parts in fluid engineering according to DIN EN ISO 13849-1
Target groups
- Mechanical designers
- Control engineers
- System integrators
- Control system designers and machine builders
- Plant and machine operators
- Craftsmen, technicians, engineers