Risk Assessment

Section 19 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires that employers and those who control workplaces to any extent must identify the hazards in the workplaces under their control and assess the risks to safety and health at work presented by these hazards.

Employers must examine and write down these workplace risks and what to do about them. Ultimately, assessing risk means that anything in the workplace that could cause harm to your employees, other employees and other people (including customers, visitors and members of the public) must be carefully examined. This allows you to estimate the magnitude of risk and decide whether the risk is acceptable or whether more precautions need to be taken to prevent harm.

Employers are required to implement any improvements considered necessary by the risk assessment. The aim is to ensure that no one gets hurt or becomes ill.
The results of any risk assessments should be written into the safety statement.

Safety Concept

At Lotus Automation the fundamental steps in our risk assessment process include the following:

• Identify tasks and the associated hazards in the workplace
• Assess the probability and severity of harm
• Reduce risk of harm through the elimination of the hazard or through the use of safeguarding methods
• Document the process and the results
• Some of the standards are
• OSHA 3071, Job Hazard Analysis
• ANSI/RIA R15.06-1999, Safety Requirements for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems
• ANSI B11.TR3, Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction
• ISO 14121 (EN 1050), Principles of Risk Assessment
• SEMI S10, Risk Assessment for Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment

Safety Design

Safety design is a concept that encourages construction of production equipment to "design out" health and safety risks during design development. The concept supports the view that along with quality, programme and cost; safety is determined during the design stage. Within Europe production equipment designers are legally bound to design out risks during design development

System implementation

Putting a planned system into action. The stage of systems development in which hardware and software are acquired, developed and installed, the system is tested and documented, people are trained to operate and use the system, and an organization converts to the use of a newly developed system.

Safety validation

Having installed, retrofitted, modified or upgraded machinery, you must be confident that work equipment is operating in full conformance with the required safety, regulatory and government standards throughout the production life. This must be assured by competent personnel in a manner that is both objective and systematic.

What We Do

By drawing from decades of experience in validating machinery, Lotus Automation engineers have developed a structured method for inspecting the safety critical elements of your plant and machinery, thereby verifying the suitability of the safety measures implemented. The check used to validate such elements includes:

• Evaluation of the components selected
• Assessment of existing design versus safety requirements
• Carry out a function test and fault simulation
• Test of safety-related software and hardware functions
• Check of sensor and actuator installation and wiring configuration
• Production of test report detailing validation results

International Compliance services

Exporters and users of machines are faced with complex compliance and regulatory issues when moving machinery from one country to another. A machine fully compliant with standards and regulations in one country may not conform to national rules in another. Lotus Automation Engineers ensure freedom of movement with cost effective and timely compliance to our customers.

Plant assessment

Training

Our safety training courses cover all important topics on machinery safety:

• Machinery Safety Expert
• The new Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
• CE marking and machinery regulations
• Safety Design incorporating ISO 13849 and IEC 62061
• Electrical Safety in industrial installations
• Other Safety Training

Consultancy

Support

Whether it is Planning and Engineering or Safety at Work Management in Operations, the use of Industrial Safety Technology requires a high degree of responsibility awareness and well-established expertise. we provide services and support for everything concerning machine and plant system safety.

GAP Analysis Service

Lotus Automation offers a broad range of machine safety services. Our mission is to help clients reach their machine safety goals and objectives. Whether the goal is to ensure regulatory compliance, conform to a national or international safety standard, reduce costs or improve safety performance, Lotus Automation can help define, target, and implement solutions. We understand each company is unique and has specific needs and challenges. Our approach is to focus on each client's needs to ensure we provide value-adding ideas and services to their machine safety program.