Since the last century asylum safety standards issued in 80s has been for the plastics and rubber industry workers, and a series of standards for the whole world, plastic and rubber machinery standard TC 145 and ISO/TC27 European Standardization Committee Chairman Claudio Celata wrote.
In the end of the 80s, the directives and regulations, which were called "new methods", which came into effect in Europe, defined the basic requirements for health, safety and environmental issues. Since then, the European plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers have made great contributions to the development of unified standards to ensure that workers in the plastic and rubber processing workshop work at the highest level of safety.
With the increase in the number of imported machines in Europe, a lot of manufacturers / importers do not comply with the directive, regulations and uniform standards. This means that many factories around the world have installed potentially unsafe machines that make workers at risk of safety.
For example, in Europe, about 10 years ago, the Italy Association of ASSOCOMAPLAST and export of national customs authorities signed a memorandum of understanding, which can be the need for technical inspection in Italy before injection molding machine (Mechanical Annex IV). Almost all of the technical tests have shown that the notice issued by the non European division of the certificate issued by the "CE" of the machine, to a large extent does not meet the safety standards.
The safety gap caused by non European manufacturers may be due to a standard not known. After all, it is not difficult or expensive to mark the "CE" on the machine that does not conform to the specific safety standards set by the European standard.
New safety standards
In view of this situation, as well as some of the workshop safety incidents followed by the workshop, health and safety departments were examined, and the failure to prevent the machine from entering the european.
It should be noted that the CEN (European Standardization Committee) has been d to the TC 145 standard for plastic rubber machinery, which has a lot of new safety standards on the C plastic and rubber machinery. This new standard is implemented with the support of manufacturers and machinery users and experts from various countries in Europe, as well as the announcement and labour ministers appointed by the experts.
These CEN standards are classified: "risk assessment and safety measures for specific types of machine C" refers to the "B" standard; a transverse problem, for example, safety control system parts, safety distance, risk assessment methods and so on; "a" is referred to as machine instructions and instructions regulations.
Industrial machinery designers and users are included in this rather complex and normative structure to ensure that the European market has a "CE" logo of the machines are equipped with respect to risk assessment of the security system.
Interestingly, according to the "B" standard EN 13849 - 1:2007, you can see how the mechanical designer determines the safety control device from the minimum (a) to the highest (E) performance level.
General safety standards
All in all, since the last century, in 80s, published by the TC CEN 17 standard has been published in the official publication in Europe, and in Europe has been forced to implement the.
For this particular industrial field, the international organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee TC 270 (plastics and rubber machinery) was d in 2012. The safety standard of a related work group WG1 is now investigating the injection molding machine, and in order to have a universal standard in the world, representatives from Europe, Brazil, China, Japan and the United States have given support.
In particular, China delegation designated Standardization Management Bureau of the Chinese, will participate in the ISO TC 270 activities from the beginning, with their own experiences, to release the safety regulations for Chinese plastics and rubber machinery.
summary
In order to ensure that there is a safe workplace, the national authorities, plastics and rubber industry in various areas of the use of safety standards is very important.
The main objective is to have a general standard around the world to ensure that all plastic and rubber processing plants have the best level of safety, and the safety system designed by the machine manufacturer is consistent.
TC ISO 270 will step by step to study the specific safety standards, as in the past TC CEN 145 do so. After the injection molding machine, the next second projects will focus on the rotary forming machine.