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Machine safety technologies gain momentum |
| Are workplaces catching up with innovation? |
 Seatbelts took awhile to catch on when introduced to the market but have become an acknowledged, life-saving device for drivers. Workers in industrial plants, too, have come to accept safety devices as a necessary part of their routine. In some cases, they use them as automatically as seatbelts.
Safety has gone a step further. Continuing with the car analogy, Dave Shanahan says today’s industrial machinery is more parallel with airbags. “The safety is there, almost invisible, but passive, a cushion when a mistake is made,” says the OSH standards project manager with the Canadian Standards Association.
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Building bridges to a safer workplace |
| New machine safety pavilion a first for Health and Safety Canada 2008 |
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This year’s Health and Safety Canada 2008 will feature the launch of the first-ever Machine Automation Safety Congress (MASC), a joint initiative by Canadian Occupational Safety magazine, Manufacturing Automation magazine, and our new online resource SaferMachines.com. As part of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association’s Health and Safety Canada conference and trade show, the MASC pavilion and exhibit area will feature special hands-on demonstrations where leading suppliers of machine automation safety and safeguarding will showcase their products and answer questions from thousands of conference participants.
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Start the presses |
| Can upgrading press safety also improve productivity? |
 Over the past few years, the metal forming industry in Canada has had to deal with the expense of increased safety standards, while at the same time suffering increased competition from offshore manufacturers. This has made the industry sit back and look at the overall profitability of continuing to manufacture in Canada.
Many presses in Canada have older control systems that use outdated technology, limiting their ability to run the sophisticated automation needed to stay current within the modern manufacturing environment. At the same time, these presses often have reliability problems due to the age of the controls and worn out wiring. Since the equipment must be upgraded for safety, it ís also the perfect opportunity to upgrade the overall performance of the pressroom.
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Risk assessments needed for automation |
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Automation doesn’t mean automatically safe
Properly installed machine automation systems can boost productivity and worker safety. But researchers say that manufacturers still need to do proper risk assessments and evaluations to ensure that workers are kept safe.
Present in a wide range of industries such as food processing, pulp and paper, petroleum, textile and automobile, automation offers greater productivity, reduced production costs, improved quality of product, greater manufacturing flexibility as well as workers being alleviated from repetitive tasks, tedious and hazardous labour.
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