Why You Should Attend

With workplace safety under increasing scrutiny, understanding your responsibilities and ensuring compliance with machinery safety requirements has never been more important.

• What are my responsibilities?
• How do I know if my machines are safe?
• How do I assess the current safety of my machinery and make informed decisions about necessary improvements?

Our seminar provides the answers you need to ensure compliance and enhance safety in your workplace.

Our Offer

Join us for our AS/NZS 4024 Machine Safety Training alongside others from industries similar to yourself and hosted by a specialist in Machine Safety and the relevant standards.

Learn about the revisions to AS/NZS 4024 (19 parts), two newly added parts as well as withdrawn parts.

• We cover the new application guide and highlight the mandatory requirements within and the importance of the interrelationship between the AS/NZS 4024 series.
• Learn about fault exclusion, good design principles to minimise attempts to defeat, safety distance calculation for presence sensing safety devices, the European vs Australian/ New Zealand standards hierarchy, how Performance Levels versus Categories affect your machine safety design decisions and much more.

Your Benefit

• Know your responsibilities
• Know where to start and what steps to take in achieving compliance with AS/NZS 4024
• Network with others in similar industries
• Get to know the experts and where to go for help
• Improve your knowledge of and skill in machine safety

Prerequisites for advanced training:

• Your own laptop computer with the latest version of SISTEMA software installed.

SISTEMA can be downloaded here: IFA – Practical aids: Software-Assistent SISTEMA: Safety Integrity – Software Tool for the Evaluation of Machine Applications

Two Day Agenda

Day One

• Introduction.
• Legislation and how it affects you.
• Principles of machine related safety according to AS/NZS 4024 2014.
• Acceptability of safety principles in EN954-1 and AS/NZS 4021 2014 (Cat. vs PL).
• Functional Safety in accordance with EN ISO 13849-1 and relative AS/NZS 4024 2014 provisions.
• Changes to AS4024 2006 which brought about AS/NZS 4024 2014.
• Explanation of the structure and hierarchy of European/international and Australian/New Zealand standards.

Day Two

• Introduction to and the meaning of ‘risk assessment’ and associated relevant standards.
• Requirements and objectives of a risk assessment. How to gather and document information. Tools available.
• Definition of ‘hazard’ and ‘hazardous point’ with practical examples.
• Assignment of measures and solutions to be implemented as a result of the risk assessment.
• Evaluation and categorisation of safety related parts of control systems (SRPCS) to appropriate Category (Cat.), Performance Level (PL) and Safety Integrity Level (SIL).
• Possible solutions to achieve the necessary risk reduction.
• Safety interlock requirements and installation. Discussion on ISO 14118 compared to AS/NZS 4024.1603 2014. Requirements of ISO 14119 regarding actuator coding levels.
• Light Curtain and Safety Laser Scanner requirements and installation including practical testing with a stop time meter to calculate the appropriate safety distance.
• E-stop requirements and installation.
• Safety controllers – their use, capabilities and suitable applications.
• Developing a Safety Concept and a Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) and working through a safety performance calculation.
• Introduction to SISTEMA, Safety Integrity Software Tool for the Evaluation of Machinery Applications
• Discussion on safety applications relevant to your business

 Please note: This agenda may be subject to change

RSVP – 2 WEEKS PRIOR TO EVENT

If you have any questions regarding these training courses please contact your Remtron Account Manager or Guy Negri on 0418 684 614 or gnegri@remtron.com.au