Do you struggle with risk assessment? Safety in machinery is a very important, but often under taught area full of complicated terms from the ISO 12100 standard. This article will take you through a risk assessment example by using procedures and methods from ISO 12100 and the old ISO 14121-2.

Risk assessment is a way of finding risks and hazards in your machine design. All machine designers have to make sure their machines are safe for humans to operate. Eventually, it is our responsibility to find all the risks and then eliminate those risks.

Think of safety relays as unique helpers in creating a safety circuit, which is vital for machine design. It’s essential to grasp the basics of how these relays work and why they’re so important for keeping operations safe.

With that said, safety often becomes a confusing matter because a lot of terminology is attached to it. All that terminology comes from the standards describing safety circuits, functional safety and thereby safety relays.