BG/BGIA risk assessment recommendations according to machinery directive: design of workplaces with collaborative robots
"Parts 1 and 2 of the EN ISO 10218 standards define the occupational safety requirements for the “Collaborative Robots” application area in the industrial robot field. These requirements apply to workers’ job tasks that involve direct close contact between the collaborative robot and the worker...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| Format: | TEXT |
| Language: | English |
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Sankt Augustin
2011
BGIA |
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19396303124911145859-BG-BGia-risk-assessment-recomm.htm |
| Summary: | "Parts 1 and 2 of the EN ISO 10218 standards define the occupational safety requirements for the “Collaborative Robots” application area in the industrial robot field. These requirements apply to workers’ job tasks that involve direct close contact between the collaborative robot and the workers.
The concept of Collaborative Robots used in this BG/BGIA recommendations includes - apart from the robot itself, the final effector, the tool adapted to the robotic arm with which the robot carries out tasks and the objects moved with it.
This applies, for example, to small robots (used continuously with persons as part of the manufacturing process in near and overlapping workrooms). The present BG/BGIA recommendations can also be useful in the field of Service Robots.
In these workplace applications with collaborative robots there are no longer separating protective safeguards for certain workrooms that can always prevent a collision risk between robot and affected person. In these cases, other suitable protective measures can be implemented to determine the possibility of a collision and constantly minimize it by controlling the robot. Nonetheless, a residual risk still remains.
Risk assessments must be carried out for such working areas that must take into account new occupational safety requirements that apply in case of a collision, thus keeping injury risks within low, tolerable levels should a collision occur.
The collisions covered by the present BG/BGIA recommendations are to be classified as undesired events occurring during working tasks, even though they need not necessarily result in interruption to or cessation of work by the persons concerned. Although wilful and (regarding a work task) essential contacts between a person and a technical work equipment are not meant here, a collision can nonetheless result in an interruption or even in a temporary cessation of the work task with - circumstances permitting - additional professional treatments of the affected person and a reassessment of the workplace. " |
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| Physical Description: | 36 p. Digital |