FRANCO srl Manual of use and maintenance UCP
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OTHER DEFINITIONS:
HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION:
Any situation in which an operator interacts with the machine in any of
the operational phases at any time of the life of the machine itself;
OPERATOR’S QUALIFICATION:
Minimum level of competence that an operator must have in order to
perform the described operation;
NUMBER OF OPERATORS:
The appropriate number of operators needed to optimally perform the
described operation, resulting from an accurate analysis made by the
manufacture, and for which the use of a different number of operators
may prevent the occurrence of the expected result or endanger the
safety of the personnel involved;
STATE OF THE MACHINE:
The state of the machine includes the operating mode, for example:
running in automatic mode, hold-to-run
control (jog), shutdown, etc… the
safety conditions on the machine, such as included protectors, excluded
protectors, emergency shutdown, isolation from energy sources, etc…
RESIDUAL RISK:
Risks that remain, despite the inherent safe design measures,
safeguarding and complementary protective measures adopted.
SAFETY COMPONENT:
Component:
- designed to fulfill a safety function;
- the failure and/or malfunctioning of which endangers the safety of
persons (such as a lifter; a fixed, moving or adjustable protector; an
electrical, electronic, optical, pneumatic or hydraulic device which
interlocks
a protector; etc…).
