Interested in becoming a Certified Machinery Safety Expert?
If you work with machinery, and you’re a mechanical designer, control engineer, system integrator, control system designer or machine builder, plant and machine operator, craftsman or technician, this course is for you.
In partnership with our channel partner, Pilz Australia, we’re hosting the CMSE® training course on 21-24 October in Perth.
This four-day course covers five modules:
Introduction to safety
- Introduction to the relevant safety regulations
- Competence and responsibilities
- Introduction to safety management systems
Machinery safety
- Legislation relating to the design, manufacture and maintenance of machinery and work equipment
- Conformity requirements and procedures for placing machinery on the market
- Work equipment and workplace regulations
- Taking safety at work into consideration in terms of machines, including ergonomics, noise, vibration and chemical substances
Risk assessment
- Risk assessment according to ISO 12100 and its application
- Methods for risk assessment using specific examples
- Performing the risk assessment step by step
- Application and usage of further relevant machinery standards within the risk assessment process
- Brief overview of risk reduction after completion of the risk assessment
Mechanical safeguards
- International requirements of standards in terms of mechanical safeguards
- Safeguards: Definition, types and examples of applications
- Calculation of safety distances in compliance with ISO 13857
Safety components and technologies
- Overview of safety components, requirements and applications
- Specification and use, advantages and disadvantages (eg Interlocking devices, light curtains, two-hand control devices)
- Technical and supplementary protective measures (eg safety fences, light beam devices, emergency stop command devices)
- Safety relevant applications of control systems
Electrical safety requirements
- A detailed look at IEC 60204-1: electrical equipment of plants and machinery
- Considerations of the electrical design, from the infeed up to the proper verification
- Safe operation and maintenance of electrically driven machinery
Functional safety of control systems
- Detailed consideration of the requirements of ISO 13849
- Specification, draft and validation of functional safety control systems
- Determination of Performance Level (PL) and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) with reference to safety functions
- Choice of architecture using practical examples of implementing categories
- Software lifecycle: requirements and application
- Verification and validation methods
- Introduction to IEC 62061
- Practical exercises in PL and SIL validations
Functional safety of fluid engineering
- Requirements of EN ISO 4413 (hydraulic systems) and ISO 4414 (pneumatic systems)
- Required measures for the safe application of hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Special features of hydraulic and pneumatic components
- Design of safety-relevant parts in fluid engineering according to DIN EN ISO 13849-1
On completion, including the assessment on day 4, you’ll receive the internationally recognised TÜV NORD certificate.
For more information, or to book your spot: https://www.pilz.com/en-AU/trainings/articles/215364.
