Guarding Design Services
Guardsafe offer a full in-house machinery guarding design facility as part of our turnkey guarding solutions. The design facility including consultation is also available as a separate service if required.
All guarding is designed and engineered in accordance with the latest EN standards including:
- BS EN 953: Safety of Machinery - Guards - General requirements for the design and construction of fixed and movable guards.
- BS EN ISO 13857 Safety of Machinery - Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and lower limbs.
- BS EN 349 Safety of Machinery - Minimum gaps to avoid crushing of parts of the human body.
- We also refer to ‘Type C’ standards where available for specific types of machinery.
Following these standards allows us to provide best practice solutions to guarding applications therefore providing protection to persons whilst maintaining machine functionality and productivity.
Using the latest Computer Aided Design (C.A.D) we can generate accurate machinery representations in both 2D & 3D formats and then overlay the proposed guarding solution to illustrate form and function. This is a key feature of our design facility, allowing operators to see the guarding in ‘virtual position’ prior to installation, highlighting any potential design changes prior to manufacture. This flexibility makes modification of the design easy at any stage of the process, ensuring that all guarding meets client expectations, operator requirements and the relevant EN standards.
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