J.B. Titus

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Machine Safety: Consequences of not performing risk assessments!

Machine Safety: hazard remediation, mechanical versus control system solutions

Machine Safety: Globalization of safety standards doesn’t equal global compliance

Machine Safety: Only engineers can lead the Risk Assessment process?

An improved safety culture, advocated at the business level with engineering input, can bring about faster adoption of proven machine safety technologies, improving safety, and adding economic value. Courtesy: JB Titus & Associates

Machine Safety: Where do effective safety cultures roost?

Machine Safety: Has OSHA ever fined an employee for a safety violation?

Machine Safety: Does OSHA reference consensus standards for compliance?

ANSI B11.0 – 2010 Safety of Machinery – General Requirements and Risk Assessment. Cover image used with permission. Courtesy: ANSI

Machine Safety: Does a risk assessment need to be updated for a minor machine modification?

To stay on target consider updates to your safety culture and your machine guarding solutions practice.

Machine Safety: Functional safety and the steps to be compliant in the U.S.

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Machine Guarding: Trouble shooting old systems is doomed with iPad skills

Machine Safety: The missing ah-ha for plant management

Machine Safety: Does it matter, the Aggregate Hazard Level for a machine?

Control Engineering Machine Safety blog table compares older versus newer machine safety systems. New integrated safety systems are more flexible, pose less risk, and are more reliability, said J.B. Titus, certified functional safety expert.

Machine Safety: System degradation and incidence of injury

Machine Safety – ISO 13849-1 compliance is mandatory for robot applications (ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-1&2: 2011)

Machine Safety: ISO 13849-1 compliance is mandatory for robot applications, ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-1&2: 2011

Poll asking respondents if they regularly violate NFPA 70E rules while working on electrical panels.

Machine Safety: NFPA 70E and international requirements

Machine Safety: Without an injury, OSHA issues citations for more than $1 million

ASSE article and table enhances the existing qualitative risk management techniques illustrated by existing standards like ANSI B11.TR3 and ANSI/ASSE Z690.3 by combining severity and probability estimations for the severity of injury, with definitions of

Machine Safety: How safe is safe enough?