ARS Automation FlexiBowl 350, Instructions For Use Manual

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Instructions for use and warnings
CHAPTER 2 - General preliminary information
2.7 Glossary
Technical terminology or terminology with an uncommon meaning is used in the manuals.
The terms and abbreviations used are explained below:
term Definition
Lifting
accessories
Component or equipment not attached to the lifting machinery, allowing the load to be
held, which is placed between the machinery and the load or on the load itself, or which
is intended to constitute an integral part of the load and which is placed on the market
separately.
Slings and their components are also regarded as lifting accessories.
Failure Different kinds of faults that prevent normal operation of machinery, of a system, etc.
Chains, ropes and
webbing
Elements designed and built for lifting purposes as part of lifting machinery or lifting
accessories.
Harm Any negative consequence deriving from the occurrence of a hazardous event.
p.p.e.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is clothing or equipment designed to protect the
worker (operator, maintenance technician, technician, etc.) wearing it or carrying it against
health and safety hazards.
machine
An assembly, fitted with or intended to be fitted with a drive system, consisting of linked
parts or components, at least one of which moves, and which are joined together for a
specific application.
Malfunction
Defective or inadequate operation of a machine or its element in performing a certain
function.
Hazard Potential source of injury or damage to health.
Safeguard
Defence against what could cause harm. An element that is placed between who may be
harmed and what can cause said harm due to hazards that cannot be reasonably eliminated
or due to risks that cannot be sufficiently reduced through the design. Identified as follows:
• active safeguard that the operators themselves must activate (for example emergency
stops) and/or wear (PPE);
• passive safeguard that intervenes without human control.
Guard Physical barrier, designed as part of the machine to provide protection.
risk
Combination of the probability and the degree of an injury or damage to health that can
arise in a hazardous situation.
residual risk Risk remaining after protective and preventive measures have been implemented.
intended use Use of machinery in accordance with the information provided in the instructions for use.
reasonably
foreseeable
misuse
Use of machinery in a way not intended by the designer, but which may result from readily
predictable human behaviour.