Safety

The Safety section features equipment and design techniques applied toward minimizing hazards and maximizing product safety.

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Safety in Automation
New technology and global standards help ensure a safe workplace, boost productivity, and reduce environmental impact.

You’ve Been Sued. Now What?

To defend a product in a liability case, you must convince a jury of technically unsophisticated people that you did everything in your power to design, manufacture, and sell a safe product.
Blowoff and cooling products - Exair Corp.

The full-color, 160-page Catalog 23 offers products for common industrial cooling, drying, conveying, blow off, cleaning, and static-electricity problems.
You can’t retire from safety

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A former engineer was severely injured when the front wheels of the tractor he was driving fell into a culvert. He had removed a heavy-duty, rollover-protection arch because it was hitting the branches of his fruit trees when he drove the equipment between rows.
Miter Saw Design, Poor Safety Training Lead to Student’s Severed Thumb

A student in a junior-high-school shop class lost a thumb when the workpiece he was cutting was pulled into the blade of a miter saw.
Lock-Out/Tag-Out Misunderstanding Leads to a Crushed Arm

Lockout/Tagout is one of the most important, most often ignored, and most misunderstood part of the OSHA1910 regulations.

Damping Grease for Design

See how damping greases can cost-effectively control motion, noise and vibration in mechanical and electro-mechanical devices.
Webcast presenting the basics of the Direct Gear Design

In order to stay competitive, you must continue to create great products faster and cheaper.
Safety in Automation

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New technology and global standards help ensure a safe workplace, boost productivity, and reduce environmental impact.
Berke on Safety: Safe But Slow: How Long ‘Til Operators Remove the Guard?

Machine guarding protects people from injury during a machine’s normal operation. There are four basic approaches to machine guarding: barrier guards, guarding devices, guarding by location, and warnings.
Circuit Ideas: Hot-Surface Warning Light Requires no External Power

A hot-surface warning light is a safety device, so it must operate reliably whenever the surface is hot.