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Pilz offers a seminar on security in Lleida

22/10/2007

Pilz, supplier in the development and marketing of systems and integrated automation of security solutions, participated on 19 September in the seminar organized by the "Centre of road i conditions of health in the work" of Lleida. The central theme was "Safety devices on machinery, types and categories of systems of command".

The event, with the assistance of more than 100 inspectors throughout the area, was a success. He had the presence of Francesc Escuer (Director from the Lleida CSCST), Miquel Àngel Cervera (Industrial technical engineer.) (Expert in prevention of labour in the CSCST of Barcelona), Ramon Drudis (Chief of the section of studies and training in the CSCST of Lérida, Department of labour) and Peter Ascoz (Industrial technical engineer.) (Services Department and the company Pilz safety engineering).

Francesc Escuer opened the discussion with a brief presentation of the seminar and stressed the importance of security on the day to day.

Then Miquel Àngel Cervera explained to us the applicable law in the work equipment, as well as categories of certain controls on machines and systems.

Pilz, joined with the intervention of Pedro Ascoz, engineer and head of the Department of security engineering and services. He spoke prevention caused hazardous event by systems of command and a few practical examples of safe electrical maneuver on machines is contemplated.

It also gave some relevance to the categories of safety of the parties of command concerning safety according to EN 954-1 and a brief description of the new applicable standard ISO 13849-1, which replaces EN 954-1.

Salvadó Distribucions, closed the Colloquium with the projection of a real video of this cable which presented significant hazards not detected by the inspectors who had gone through its factory before.

Technicians and assistants gave his opinion of such dangers and discussed possible solutions or improvements.

At the end of the event the rapporteur Pedro Ascoz had his biggest challenge in opinion and diagnosed with a real cases raised at the Symposium, from the technical and professional point of view.