Abstract
Workers performing maintenance, repair and un-jamming operations on industrial machines and processes are required to follow lockout procedures in accordance with occupational health and safety regulations. However, industries seem to have difficulties in the appropriation and implementation of lockout. Reports of severe accidents, often fatal, involving industrial machinery show the extent of the problem concerning the application of lockout procedures. In this context, an intelligent tool incorporated at the design stage of a machine, which helps to apply and record lockout procedures, could be useful. Thereby, the design of a laboratory prototype has been explored for a particular maintenance task on an automated plastic injection moulding machine. Its architecture has been based on three electronic cards, sensors and wireless communications. Despite the limitations of the current version of the tool, the feasibility of designing an intelligent tool capable of following and recording lockout procedures is demonstrated.
Highlights
Maintenance activities occur regularly during the life of a machine and will occasionally require workers to en-How to cite this paper: Burlet-Vienney, D., Chinniah, Y. and Pizarro-Chong, A. (2014) Design of an Intelligent Tool for the Observation and Follow-Up of Lockout Procedures during Maintenance Activities on Industrial Machines
Recent publications show that the lack of lockout is an important factor in accidents involving machines during maintenance activities in the United States [5], Quebec (Canada) [6], France [7], and Great Britain [8]
2) Familiarization with the functioning of an injection moulding machine located at the Quebec occupational health and safety institute research (IRSST), especially by observing the machine while in operation and by performing functional tests in order to identify hazardous energies and danger zones for this machine
Summary
Maintenance activities occur regularly during the life of a machine and will occasionally require workers to en-How to cite this paper: Burlet-Vienney, D., Chinniah, Y. and Pizarro-Chong, A. (2014) Design of an Intelligent Tool for the Observation and Follow-Up of Lockout Procedures during Maintenance Activities on Industrial Machines. Maintenance activities occur regularly during the life of a machine and will occasionally require workers to en-. (2014) Design of an Intelligent Tool for the Observation and Follow-Up of Lockout Procedures during Maintenance Activities on Industrial Machines. Repair and un-jamming operations on industrial machines and processes are required to follow lockout procedures in accordance with occupational health and safety regulations [1]-[4]. Workers need to isolate and secure hazardous energies as well as to dissipate them before intervening on industrial equipment. A study has revealed that a proper application of OSHA 1910.417 in the US, during maintenance and repair operations, could potentially avoid, each year, the death of 122 workers [9] [10]
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