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1.3
SYMBOLS AND GLOSSARY
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DANGER:
a potential source of injury
or damage to health;
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HAZARDOUS AREA:
any area inside
and/or near the machine in which the
presence of a person constitutes a risk
to safety and health of that person;
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EXPOSED PERSON:
any person
wholly or partially in an hazardous
area;
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OPERATOR:
the person or persons
given the task of installing, operating,
adjusting, cleaning, repairing, moving
or performing maintenance on the
machinery;
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RISK:
combination of the probability
and severity of an injury or damage to
health that can arise in a hazardous
situation;
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INTENDED USE:
the use of the
machine in accordance with the
information provided in the operating
instructions (para. 2.2);
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REASONABLY
FORESEEABLE
MISUSE:
the use of the machine in a
way other than that indicated in the
instructions for use, but which may
result from readily predictable human
behavior;
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HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION:
any situation in which an operator
interacts with the machine in any of the
operational phases and at any time of
life of the machine itself;
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OPERATOR
QUALIFICATION:
minimum level of competences the
operator must possess to perform the
operation described;
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NUMBER of OPERATORS:
number
of operators needed to carry out in the
best way the operation described and
resulting from a careful analysis
carried out by 'Manufacturer', whereby
the use of a different number of
employees might prevent from getting
the
expected outcome or impair the safety of
the personnel involved;
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MACHINE STATUS,
means:
the mode of operation: automatic gear,
manual operation, shutdown.
the condition of the safety devices on
the machine: guards included, guards
excluded, emergency stop pressed,
type of sectioning of energy sources,
etc .;
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GUARD:
part of the machinery used
specifically to provide protection by a
material barrier;
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SAFE STOP:
stopping condition
obtained through security measures
that
avoid
unexpected
start
of
hazardous bodies;
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RESIDUAL RISK:
risk that it was not
possible to eliminate or reduce
sufficiently through the design, against
which the protections are not (or not
totally) effective.
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The manual gives the information of
its existence and
instructions/warnings to overcome it;
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SAFETY COMPONENT:
means a
component used for ensuring a safety
function and whose breakdown or
malfunction affects the safety and/or
health of exposed persons (eg. lifting
device;
fixed,
mobile,
adjustable
guard, etc., electrical, electronic,
optical,
pneumatic,
hydraulic,
interlocking of a guard, etc.).
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ABBREVIATIONS:
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CHAP. = Chapter
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PAR = Paragraph
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P. = Page
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FIG. = Figure
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TAB = Table
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PPE = Personal protective equipment
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CFR = Compare
