Workplace injuries and illnesses have a multitude of causes, but the potential outcome is the same – unhealthy employees who may not be able to work. To achieve the goal of maximizing the health of ...

According to Kevin Connelly, business development manager, power and controls at Underwriters Laboratories (UL), component manufacturers now have an important opportunity to secure functional safety ...

Products being used within their end-product application can suffer systematic or random failures. Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of ...

Kidney function plays an important role in drug safety and effectiveness. As many medications are excreted by the kidneys, patients with reduced kidney function are at a higher risk of toxic drug ...

To a machine designer, “stay safe” is not just a cheerful slogan or wishful thinking. Operator safety is a central design issue. The international standard, ISO 12100:2010 Safety of machinery – ...

Technology can provide real benefits to warehouses, such as improved efficiency and greater productivity. While AI and ...

The NUMSafe application program for machine safety control uses the same software development tools used to commission the overall system, including CNC, PLC, drives and I/O modules. This unified ...

Based on the foundational IEC 61508 standard’s essential requirements, high-performance supervisory circuits can facilitate functional-safety compliance in safety instrumented systems and other ...

Last column, I wrote about various applications where fire alarm relays could be used to integrate a commercial fire alarm system with other electrical systems at a customer’s site to provide them ...

Safety and security have certain aspects in common so it shouldn’t be surprising that some ideas evolving in one domain find echoes in the other. In hardware design, a significant trend has been to ...