Electronic machine safety provides the highest level of protection to workers against exposure to workplace hazards but comes with many challenges. Overcoming these challenges can be a grueling process and potentially catastrophic without the proper education and support from the expertise of specialists in this field.
Employers have an obligation to protect their assets every day, including employees. In many environments such as manufacturing, this can be accomplished through machine safety guarding, which can be a physical barrier, an electronic safety device or a hybrid of both, to minimize or prevent exposure to hazards between person and machine.
However, a machine guard is not a true safety guard until an electronic signal is added, virtually bringing the barrier to life by communicating with the machine on how to react based on human interaction.
