Is Your Metalworking Shop as Safe as it Could Be?
Cutting-edge products enable your operators to establish and carry out a culture of safety and minimize risks throughout your shop.
Posted: April 4, 2024
Ski-goggle Sportiness; Industrial-strength Protection
The Brass Knuckle® (Alpharetta, GA) Vader Goggle (BKGOG-2010N) looks like it should be tearing up the slopes … yet it’s made to keep out splash and maintain vision in the toughest work environments. Made with exclusive BK-Anti-FOG coating, a durable anti-scratch treatment, and D3-rated for droplet and splash protection, Vader is as efficient and hardworking as the people who wear it.
Brass Knuckle’s BK-Anti-FOG exceeds the EN 166/168 standard for a long-lasting, fog-free view in even the most demanding conditions. Washable and durable, it lasts much longer than competitors’ anti-fog treatments, dispersing water molecules across the surface of the lens to restrict moisture buildup.
With its wide 180° peripheral vision and face coverage, the Vadar is also roomy enough to wear over most prescription eyeglasses. The only material that touches the face is an ultra-soft conditioned rubber that forms the splash shield. The Vader also has a reverse-engineered venting system that promotes directional airflow across the inside surface of the lens and further reduces the potential for moisture buildup. The durable polycarbonate lens provides 99.9% UVA/UVB/UVC protection to help prevent eye damage.
Vader meets demanding industry test requirements (ANSI Z87.1+, EN166K, EN166N, EN166UV) and meets or exceeds AS/NZS 1337.1:2010 for eye and face protection.
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Systems Safeguard Workplace Structures, Equipment and Personnel
DENIOS’ (Louisville, Ky.) impact protection and barrier systems are a simple and intelligent way to avoid accidents and damage to workplace structures, equipment, and material handling tools, while safeguarding employees. They offer a comprehensive range of impact protection barriers and bumper protection systems to shield facilities and structures from damage during intra-company transport or loading and unloading.
Safety barriers protect against high-impact and low-impact collisions maximizing safety and minimizing potential damage. Technologies available include corner and wall protectors, rack protectors, post bollards and bollard covers, polyurethane foam protective bumper guards, retractable tape barrier systems, machinery and rack guarding, I-beam protectors, mobile expanding gates and more. DENIOS impact protection barriers are ideal for use in manufacturing plants, process facilities, warehouses and more.
Safety Helmets Protect Against Impacts; Allow Users Access to Accessories
Milwaukee Tool (Brookfield, WI) delivers advanced slip, trip, and fall protection on the jobsite with BOLT™ Safety Helmets with IMPACT ARMOR™ Liner. Designed with RHEON™ technology, the IMPACT ARMOR Liner delivers the best oblique impact protection† and the safety helmet is a part of the BOLT system, allowing users to secure accessories simultaneously for efficiency on the jobsite.
In addition to protection against top and side impacts, the BOLT Safety Helmets with IMPACT ARMOR Liner allow users to use multiple accessories at once. The construction safety helmets include a BOLT Headlamp Mount that works with most headlamps for easy, secure attachment and a BOLT Marker Clip that allows for easy access to pens and markers.
The helmet and liner feature a comfortable padded suspension that includes an adjustable swinging ratchet for better comfort. The climbing style helmet also has a comfortable, adjustable chin strap for better security. These safety helmets are American National Standards Institute (ANSI) type 2 and are customizable with the ability to add a company logo in up to four locations on the helmet.
The liner is also available separately allowing users to retrofit the liner into any Milwaukee safety helmet, increasing protection and performance.
†Based on impacts at a 45° angle at a speed of 6.5 m/s averaged across 16 testing locations around the full helmet circumference.
Cut Level 5 Gloves Offer Dexterity and Breathability
Milwaukee Tool’s (Brookfield, WI) Cut Level 5 High-Dexterity Nitrile Dipped Gloves allow metalworkers to maintain high dexterity when handling small objects while also being more durable. Made of an 18-gauge, high-performance polyethylene knit for total mobility, the gloves feature a breathable glove design. Following the American National Standards Institute for hand protection classifications, these gloves are ANSI/ISEA 105-2016 Cut Level 5 rated, a recommended cut level protection for duct and sheet metal work. Milwaukee’s Cut Level 5 gloves offer the best puncture protection compared to other 18-gauge nitrile dipped gloves and have been tested to the EN388 puncture standard. With a long-lasting nitrile dip and a reinforced nitrile coating between the thumb and index finger, these gloves provide enhanced durability in high wear points. Featuring SMARTSWIPE™ fingertips, contractors can use their touchscreen devices without needing to remove their gloves.
Milwaukee’s line of cut gloves spans from Cut Level 1 for general material handling to Cut Level 5 for metal and glass work. Focused on creating innovative solutions that won’t slow users down, Milwaukee is helping them stay safe and productive on the jobsite.
New Comprehensive Safety Solution for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Pilz (Canton, MI), an innovative leader in machine safe automation technology, has developed a comprehensive safety solution in accordance with ISO 3691-4 for an efficient flow of goods in production and logistics handled by autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). It consists of the safe small controller PNOZmulti 2 with new functionalities for synchronization monitoring and activation, the safety laser scanner PSENscan and the industrial firewall SecurityBridge.
Freely navigating mobile platforms, AMRs can avoid obstacles or people without stopping. The required safety functions are complex. Particularly when cornering, it must be possible to switch between several protection zones to ensure that collisions are avoided.
With the new function blocks in the software tool PNOZmulti Configurator of the safe small controller PNOZmulti, synchronization of the axes on an AMR can be monitored reliably. The program function compares the encoder values of the two axes, enabling conclusions to be drawn about the mobile platform’s direction of movement.
With this information, the safe zone switching required can be implemented dynamically in the safety laser scanner PSENscan, the second component in Pilz’s safety solution. This also is made possible by the equally new PSENscan function block in the PNOZmulti Configurator. PSENscan can dynamically switch up to 70 protected fields using the “zone selection function.”
The configurations created in the PSENscan Configurator can be imported and processed in the navigation computer for the freely navigating platform. The safety laser scanner PSENscan provides the laser beams’ distance data, for localization and navigation of the mobile application. Data transfer allows users to create maps for navigation.
The industrial firewall SecurityBridge protects the mobile platform’s network from manipulation and ensures that no unauthorized person can access the mobile platform during operation.
The solution for safeguarding complex AMRs expands the existing offer from Pilz for safeguarding track-bound Automated Guided Vehicle Systems (AGVs).
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