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Online Training Overview

In our live, online training, our experts at Machine Safety Specialists (MSS) will properly train your staff on machine safety, conveniently by video conference. We offer half day and full day classes, as well as workshops and technical breakout sessions. You can customize class size and the content covered based on your team’s skill level and safety needs. This type of training is typically held through Microsoft Teams, with other video conference platform options available upon request. Our consultants include practical, real examples and illustrations from more than 30 years’ experience inspecting, consulting, and conducting accident investigations in more than 500 plants across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Japan.

Learning Objectives

In this training, safety professionals, technical personnel, engineers and managers will develop an understanding of the latest OSHA, ANSI, NFPA, RIA (industrial and collaborative robots) and ISO/EN requirements for industrial machine safety and risk assessment. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

Identify machine-related workplace hazards
Understand applicable U.S. machine safeguarding requirements
Inspect and recommend compliant machine safeguarding
Complete an OSHA/ANSI compliant risk assessment
Understand advanced concepts, such as:
- Control reliability and functional safety
- Alternatives to Lock-out/Tag-out (LOTO – Hazardous Energy Controls)
- Industrial and collaborative robots
- Risk assessment and risk reduction strategies
- Liability and legal concerns

Syllabus Options

Our TÜV certified senior safety engineers can cover a range of advanced machine safeguarding, safety standards, and risk assessment topics, and are able to customize the class syllabus based on your needs. Choose from two core sessions, with the potential to add on a variety of technical breakout sessions. See details on these options, below.

Session 1: Machine Safety Training

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Number of Participants: Unlimited; training is purchased per seat (per person)
Program Length: 4 hours
Client Requirements
- Professional learning environment with online connectivity
MSS Deliverables
- A softcopy training manual is provided for each student. This training manual includes the training presentation.
- Optional: One (1) MSS Universal Safety Scale (“Gotcha-Stick”)
Topics Covered:
- Why improve machine safety? (Injury prevention, compliance, the law)
- OSHA basics of machine guarding (abbreviated)
- Hierarchy of controls with examples
- Hazard recognition: Basics, Intermediate, Advanced (embedded in training)
- Functional Safety (Introduction to Control Reliability, Category 3 circuits, and guard interlocks)
- OSHA 1910.147 – OSHA requirements for Alternative Protective Methods and the Minor Servicing Exception to LOTO / ANSI Z244.1
- Safety distances

Session 2: Machine Safety Training

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Number of Participants: Unlimited; training is purchased per seat (per person)
Program Length: 4 hours
Client Requirements:
- Professional learning environment with online connectivity
MSS Deliverables
- A softcopy training manual is provided for each student. This training manual includes the training presentation.
- One (1) MSS Universal Safety Scale (“Gotcha-Stick”)
Topics Covered:
- ANSI B11.19 – Modern machine safeguarding requirements
- NFPA 79 – Stopping Functions / Emergency Stop Requirements
- Comparison of U.S. and ISO/EU machine safety standards (abbreviated)
  - CE marking
- Introduction to Industrial and Collaborative Robot Safety: OSHA / RIA 15.06 / RIA 15.606
- ANSI B11.0 – Risk Assessment
  - Quantifying the risk
- How to perform a Risk Assessment
  - Why do a risk assessment?
  - Risk Assessment System
  - Risk Factors: Severity, Exposure, Probability
  - Risk Assessment spreadsheet tool overview

Technical Breakout Sessions

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Number of Participants: Unlimited; training is purchased per seat (per person)
Program Length: Each technical breakout session topic is planned for 1-hour (45 minutes of instruction and 15 minutes of Q&A)
Client Requirements:
- Prerequisite training: Sessions 1 and 2 are required prior to technical breakout sessions
- Professional learning environment with online connectivity
Available technical breakout session topics include:
- Industrial robot safety: Includes an overview of industrial robot safety requirements in accordance with ANSI/RIA 15.06 (ISO 10218) and ANSI/RIA TR 15.306. This presentation goes into more detail than the general safety training course.
- Collaborative robot safety: Includes an overview of collaborative robot safety requirements in accordance with RIA TR R15.606 (ISO/TS 15066). This presentation goes into more detail than the general safety training course.
- Stop-time measurement classroom training: Includes classroom training covering ANSI B11.19 requirements for stop-time measurement. Includes example case study (presentation). Includes live demonstration of a stop-time meter in the classroom.
- Stop-time measurement hands-on exercise: Includes stop-time measurements on one (1) machine in your facility which interactive participation from students. For machines with “wearable” braking mechanisms (such as friction brakes), a stop-time measurement should be performed on an annual basis in order to ensure that the machine’s stop-time has not changed.
- Safety Requirements for Bypassing (Suspending) Guards: This session provides advanced training showing U.S. and ISO requirements for operating powered industrial machinery with exposure to hazards with guards removed or bypassed. Includes detailed instruction and discussion on required engineering controls and administrative measures.
- Advanced functional safety and control reliability: Overview of ANSI B11.26 for technical personnel including engineers, technicians, and Sr. maintenance personnel. Includes recommendations and requirements for functional safety systems including fluid power safety systems (hydraulics and pneumatics). Typical safety system designs are reviewed and discussed including schematic diagrams for safety control systems, hydraulic systems and pneumatic (air) systems.
- Roller and Conveyor Guarding: This session covers OSHA and ANSI safeguarding recommendations for conveyors and machines with roller hazards. Includes a summary of requirements from OSHA, ANSI and ASME safety standards as they pertain to safeguarding of rotational hazards, conveyors and in running nip hazards. Includes discussion on best practices for safeguarding conveyors and rollers.
- Safe Entry Requirements for Manufacturing Cells: Complex manufacturing systems (such as industrial robot cells) expose employees to high-risk machinery hazards during cell entry if risk reduction methods are inadequate. This technical training session covers a four (4) step safety design process needed to properly apply engineering controls to manufacturing systems with perimeter guarding. This class presents up-to-date guarding and functional safety requirements in consideration of hazardous energy control requirements (LOTO) and OSHA’s minor servicing exception.
- Custom Training Session: This custom session is planned for up to two (2) hours (includes up to 30 minutes of Q&A and discussion). Includes preparation of training material and safety engineering review and approval of content prior to presentation.

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