With new occupational health and safety legislation placing ever more onerous responsibilities on production and senior managers, ensuring plant safety and minimising risks has never been more important.
According to Raju Kotecha, Treotham Automation's Business Devlopment Manager, the company's plant and equipment risk assessment service provides a comprehensive risk assessment and harm minimisation process, which ensures plant and equipment is compliant with all relevant regulations and is safe to operate.
The service consists of four stages to ensure that no area is left unchecked:
1. Plant assessment
The plant assessment report provides an overview of the current safety status of the company’s production equipment. Treotham’s specialist consulting engineers undertake an on-site examination of plant and equipment, including an analysis of primary hazards. They also evaluate existing risk reduction principles and check machine compliance with current regulations. Customers are provided with a priority list outlining the hierarchy of risks on the production floor.
2. Risk assessment
The risk assessment report identifies hazards, evaluate risks, and provide a comprehensive risk control recommendation complying with AS4024.1-2006 (machine safety standards) and OH&S regulations.
3. Safety design
The safety design service ensures that systems are compliant in every way and includes safety requirement specification, detailed electrical, mechanical, software and control system design, and
component selection. Software development and customer training are also provided.
4. Validation
The fourth step in the process, validation analysis, completes the risk assessment process. This includes assessment of existing design against safety requirements, evaluation of selected components and testing of safety-related hardware and software.
Treotham’s validation analysis ensures that the customer complies with AS4024.1502-2006.
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