Safety of manufacturing equipment: Methodology based on a work situation model and need functional analysis

Abstract

The aim of “integrated prevention” is to conduct a preliminary risk analysis in order to achieve a lower level of risk in the design of future work equipment. Despite the many safety documents that exist, many companies, particularly SME/SMIs, do not yet apply these safe design principles. Integration of safety in the design process is mainly based on the individual knowledge or experience of the designers and is not conducted in any formalized way. In order to answer to this problem, this paper presents a methodology to involve engaging stakeholders in dynamic dialogue and a framework so that they may together define the information necessary for implementing safe design principles during the functional specification. The proposed methodology has been validated to industrial case.