LINK Systems Max Presence Sensing Device - Manual (Page 4)

Link Lite Black Max Section 1 - User Requirements
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2. The specific duties and actions to be
performed by setup and operator personnel
for each job relative to both production
and safety. These work practices must be
in conformance with any OSHA or ANSI
standards that apply.
3. The machine manufacturer's operating
instructions.
4. Instructions to never use the machine
in such a manner or for any job that will
exceed any rated capacity for the machine.
5. All operating instructions and warnings
in the Link Lite Black Max Technical
Manual including the "Safety System
Setup" and "Operator Safety System
Checkout" prescribed in section 4 of this
manual.
6. Instructions to never operate the
machine or production process if the
checkouts required in item 5 of this list
reveals that any safeguarding component
is not properly set up and functional, or
that the machine is not working properly.
7. Instructions to never remove, bypass,
or rewire the Link Lite Black Max or
other safety devices, controls, or
guards on the machine.
NOTE! Where illiteracy or a language
barrier would keep a person from reading
(or listening) and understanding warnings
and training instructions, the employer
must read or provide translation of these
instructions to the person. The employer
must ascertain that the instructions are
understood.
1.3.3. Supervision
OSHA requires the employer not only to
provide but to "insure" the use of properly
applied and adjusted point of operation
safeguarding. Supervisors must
understand and enforce all items covered
in the preceding Training section for the
safe setup and operation of the machine.
1.4. Maintenance
OSHA requires the employer to establish
and follow a maintenance program for
industrial machinery. No presence sensing
device, including the Black Max, will
protect personnel from abnormal
hazardous machine action(s) that result
from failure, wear, or misadjustment of
mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or
electrical drive components of the machine
upon which it is installed. Inspection and
preventative maintenance of drive systems
that govern machine action is necessary to
reduce risks of abnormal machine
action(s) that cannot be stopped by the
machine control (and hence the stop signal
from the Black Max). Maintenance must
also be performed as required to keep
stopping time of machine action less than
the stopping time that the safety distance,
Ds, explained in the Installation and
Operating Instruction sections of this
manual is based upon. Maintenance
personnel must always follow any OSHA
required lockout procedures when working
on the machine and never work on the
machine while production is being run.
WARNING! Failure to train personnel in
the correct setup and use of the production
system, including the safety components
can lead to unsafe production systems and
work practices with consequent severe
injury or death to personnel.