ISO Focus - July/August 2004

Safe machinery saves lives

ISO Focus, July/August 2004

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Comment

Alfred Sutter, Chair ISO/TC 199, Safety of machinery
Preparing safety for all

Guest View

Hartmut Reuter, CEO of the Rieter Group, Winterthur, Switzerland

"If the industry concerned did not participate there would be a danger of too many theoretical standards being issued that bore litte relation to industrial reality."

Main Focus

Safe machinery saves lives

• Putting machine safety in a global perspective
• Safety pays: designing machines that care
• Universal and individual risk
• Easy to operate: earth-moving machinery
• Hazards are everywhere: how to achieve functional safety
• Vibration and shock affect people’s lives
• Radical improvements in crane safety
• Ergonomics: the road to health, safety and efficiency
• Burning a trail ahead in protective clothing
• Reducing the risk of hearing damage
• The value of statistical techniques

Developments and initiatives

• Automobile safety – a dummy that can take it all
• Best practice for information security
• Legislation and standards – partners in consumer protection
• The unrelenting advance of video compression
• ISO to go ahead with guidelines for social responsibility

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