Who is the Safety Guy? What is Safety Engineering?
Welcome to the first episode of the Safety Guy podcast. Your host, Doug Nix, shares various perspectives on machinery safety topics in this show. In this episode, you’ll learn a bit about Doug and his background; then, you’ll learn a bit about the safety engineering discipline.
Transcript
Time | Topic | Related Links |
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00:00 | What’s on the show today? | |
00:51 | Introducing the Safety Guy. - Why bother to podcast on machinery safety? | |
1:46 | The Safety Guy’s philosophy | |
3:41 | What’s in the rest of the episode? - Introducing IEEE’s Product Safety Engineering Society - New Machinery Safety Website - Hazard Based Safety Engineering Model - Basic Design Methodologies | |
4:41 | The Need for Education in Safety-based Design | |
8:33 | Resources for Self-Education | Compliance Engineering Magazine, http://www.ce-mag.com/ Compliance Magazine, http://www.compliancemag.com/ Conformity Magazine, http://www.conformity.com/ IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES), http://www.ieee-pses.org/ IEEE EMC Product Safety Technical Committee (EMC-PSTC), http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ IEEE PSES Compliance Forum, http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/emc-pstc.html IEEE Electrical Safety Forum, https://www.ieeecommunities.org/ieee.safety IEEE PSES Symposium, http://www.www.ieee-pses/symposium/ |
11:10 | The basics of safety engineering | |
11:26 | UL University’s Hazard Based Safety Engineering (HBSE) Seminar | Hazard Based Safety Engineering Seminar, http://www.uluniversity.com/SUTRA/shopul/customer/home.php?cat=341 |
11:35 | The HBSE Model | |
17:50 | Control Measures | |
18:18 | Risk Assessment and the Ford Pinto Case | |
20:40 | The popularization of Risk Assessment: EN 1050 (aka ISO 14121) and the concepts of Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) | |
21:45 | Risk Scoring based on EN 954–1 Annex A (aka ISO 13849–1) | |
22:45 | Bruce W. Main – Design Safety Engineering, Tom Doyle – Industrial Safety Integration | Industrial Safety Integration |
23:06 | ANSI B11.19 Standard, ANSI/RIA 15.06 Standard, CSA Z434 Standard | |
23:40 | Why don’t more machine builders do risk assessments? | |
24:43 | Other methods – FMEA, FTA | |
25:30 | Bruce Main’s textbook | Risk Assessment Basics and Benchmarks. Read the review in IEEE Xplore before you buy. |
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In the next episode, we’ll be discussing safety-based design methodology and we’ll get deeper into risk assessment.