Safety assessments help you comply with current and emerging standards by providing consulting services for safety critical controls. Once a safety assessment is complete, you are provided with complete documentation and remediation suggestions.

Safety assessment services include:

• Risk

  The foundation to any successful machine safety program is a risk assessment. Leading safety organizations including TUV, IEC, NFPA, ANSI and ASSE have recognized and promoted the benefits associated with performing risk assessments based on industry published methodologies. Today, safety-related standards and industry guidelines are being updated to reflect the need for conducting risk assessments. Your Rockwell Automation Risk Assessment will provide:

  • A repeatable process that can help improve machine safeguarding and act as a guide towards achieving regulatory compliance
  • Clarification of safeguarding requirements and definition of the appropriate control circuit architecture and safety performance level needed for compliance
  • Documented evidence of intent to produce a safer product or workplace
  • A baseline that can be referenced during periodic inspections of the machine to help assure all safeguards are still implemented and working properly. As production dictates changes in machine operations, previous risk assessments can be quickly updated to reflect any new hazards and mitigation plans associated with the modification
  • Identification of potentially hazardous situations that may be missed by using any other method of risk assessment (Rockwell Automation utilizes a task-based methodology)
  • The framework to create a positive staff attitude around machine safety. By involving technicians in the safeguarding process, the technicians can better understand why a machine needs to be guarded in a particular manner and; therefore, may be more likely to accept the new safeguard
• Hazard

  These exception-based assessments are a quick and inexpensive way to audit a machine /work cell to determine the obvious points of operation and power transmission hazards. The result of the hazard assessment is a concise report that identifies the location of each observed hazard and provides a rough budgetary estimate for safeguarding. The hazard assessment will also provide:

  • General recommendations on how to guard a machine/work cell
  • A prioritization plan for your machine safeguarding project when many unique machines need to be evaluated and upgraded
  • The unbiased, third party opinion of a machine safety consultant with the required knowledge of relevant safety standards, best practices and current safeguarding technology
• Arc flash analysis

  An Arc Flash Analysis helps identify issues that may lead to an arc flash or blast. An arc flash or blast can release dangerous levels of heat energy, fire, molten materials, vaporized solids that can be inhaled, flying shrapnel and trigger the rapid expansion of air, all capable of causing severe and sometimes fatal injuries. To help reduce the risk of an arc flash or blast, and the associated injuries, a Rockwell Automation Arc Flash Analysis includes:

  • Electrical Power Systems Analysis
  • Recommended Arc Flash Safety Training
  • Short Circuit Current Analysis
  • Overcurrent Protective Device Coordination Analysis
  • Hazard Analysis

  Rockwell Automation can perform problem remediation and updates to one-line diagrams following the assessment.

• CE Mark

  Each CE marking directive gives "essential health and safety requirements" that a product must meet before it can be sold in the European Union. Rockwell Automation will help you ensure that products meet applicable directive(s) before sale. This service spans 13 elements, including issuing a Declaration of Conformity (DoC). This indicates conformity of referenced product to the listed provisions of application directives(s) and standards.

• Lockout/Tagout

  This assessment helps identify lockout/tagout issues that could lead to the unexpected release of hazardous energy during service and maintenance work. The LOTO Assessment includes training and hardware recommendations to improve your LOTO process. Improvements can be realized in risk reduction and overall LOTO time reduction.

• Stop Time

  Stop time measurements evaluate compliance of light curtain and area guarding device installations. These services also help to determine ergonomic and operational advantages of safeguarding options.

• Safety Circuit

  A Safety Circuit Analysis will help you meet your safety standards. Rockwell Automation will verify the safety circuit design per the applicable standards specified by you. These standards may include EN-954 Category B,1,2,3, or 4, ANSI B11, TR3 Control Reliable, Single Channel w/ monitoring, Single Channel, or others. During the Circuit Analysis we will:

  • Assure compliancy of system architectures and designs
  • Evaluate the safety circuit integrity
  • Provide you a third party evaluation and letter of conformance
• Process Safety
  • Functional Safety Consultancy

Safety system validation services help to ensure proper safety system installation and functionality by evaluating circuit performance, fault tolerance, fault action, software logic, device application, device function and reset actions for all modes of operation. Services encompass U.S. and European Community based designs and can be tailored to meet your needs.

Safety validation services include:

• Safety circuit analysis
• Machine stop time services
• Conformance audits
• Safety system validation

Compliance consulting is performed to help you meet industry and global standards and how to design functional safety. We can assist in a risk assessment, standards identification, system engineering, evaluation and technical construction file management for self certification required for compliance for importing machines into the respective jurisdictions.

Compliance consulting includes:

• CE conformance
• Functional safety (i.e., ISO 13849-1 and IEC 62061
• ISO, ANSI, IEC, CE, OSHA, NFPA, CSA, AS

Training can encompass a wide variety of elements which include: Current and emerging industry standards and guidelines, application examples when applying safety components covering electrical design and function for Control Reliable (EN-954) Category circuits, machine guarding design, and risk assessment.

Safety training includes:

• Safety product training
• Safety standards training
• Arc Flash training
• TUV Certification training

Safety systems controls design, integration and startup services will result in enhanced machine productivity while maintaining workplace safety.

Safety implementation services include:

• Circuit/logic design
• Installation
• Arc flash remediation
• MCC arc flash upgrades