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6. GLOSSARY AND PICTORIALS
This paragraph lists uncommon terms or however having a meaning other than common.
The paragraph below explains the abbreviations and the meaning of the pictorials used to indicate the
qualification of the operator and Machine status. They are used to provide quickly and unequivocally
the information required for proper use of the Machine in safe conditions.
GLOSSARY
HAZARD ZONE:
Area within and/or near a machine where the presence of an exposed person
represents a risk for the health or safety of that person;
EXPOSED PERSON:
Any person who is entirely or in part in a hazard zone;
OPERATOR:
Person in charge of installing, operating, adjusting, performing maintenance, cleaning,
repairing and handling the machine.
MAN-MACHINE INTERACTION:
Any situation in which an operator interacts with the machine in any
operative stage at any time of its service life;
OPERATOR QUALIFICATION:
Minimum level of the skills the operator must have to perform the
operation described;
NUMBER OF OPERATORS:
Adequate number of operators to perform in an optimal manner the
operation described and arising from careful analysis performed by the manufacturer, hence using a
different number of workers might prevent the expected result from being achieved or jeopardise the
safety of the personnel involved;
MACHINE STATUS
, refers to:
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the operating mode;
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the condition of the safety devices installed on the Machine.
RESIDUAL HAZARD:
Danger that could not be eliminated or reduced sufficiently through design,
against which the guards are not (or are not wholly) effective. The manual provides information on its
existence and instructions and warnings to address it (see respectively, 5.5 and 5.5.1 of European
standards EN 292/1 and EN 292/2);
SAFETY COMPONENT:
Refers to a component used to assure a safety function and whose fault or
bad operation undermines the safety or health of the exposed persons (e.g. lifting equipment; fixed,
movable, adjustable guard, etc., electrical, electronic, optical, pneumatic, hydraulic device that feeds
or interlocks a guard etc.);
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Glossary and pictorials