Machine Safety Risk Assessment Principles

This is basically a Slovak translation of an English edition of the ISO 14 121-1 standard that has been elaborated by the technical committee of ISO/TC 199 Machine safety in cooperation with the technical committee of European Committee for Standards/Technical Committee (ECN/TC) 114 Machine safety, whose headquarters are located at DIN—a German standard-setting institution and German is the language in which the European Standards (EN) ISO 14121-1 standard has been written. The standard has replaced the Slovak Technical Standard European Standards (STN EN) 1050 standard elaborated also by experts in Germany this is an A standard, i.e., an elementary (general) safety standard. 

Danger (also Chapter 3.2.1) as the quality of a machine, subject, technology, event, and a man (civil security) to cause damage followed by harm—a negative event. 

If danger is not activated, that is, it is not put into operation, it is of no interest as far as scientific analyses are concerned. Under these circumstances, there will be no damage or harm of the given object. 

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In 2005 and 2006, the risk assessment report was carefully scrutinized and the reasons of occupational accidents discussed in-depth together with management of the company. It was concluded, that the accidents occurred in 2000-2003 were often caused by the lack of safety measures or ignorance of measures by workers while in 2004-2005 the accidents occurred due to the construction principles of certain older machines or worker s inattentiveness of the worker. It is clear, that workers operating with some specific older machine types are easier subjects to work accident and therefore, workers need to be specifically cautious and follow all the safety rules accurately until the company has been able to allocate financial funds to renew the machinery. 

Directive No. 89/391/EC, on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers, defines the employer s commitment to perform risk analyses at a workplace (Section II, Article 6, Paragraph 2, 3) and notify workers of same (Section II, Article 10, Paragraph 1). The enactment defines principles of occupational health and safety with the main principles being the commitment of designers, project engineers, and users of machines and machinery to assess risks. 

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