The role of experience transfer

An industrial organisation must have sufficient knowledge to be able to establish and maintain adequate barriers. This knowledge is partly acquired from the accumulated external experiences that have been documented in regulations, standards, user instructions of machinery, handbooks, etc. The internal experience transfer also plays a significant role. It is, for example, necessary to find an adequate balance between active and passive barriers. The barriers must be feasible and must not obstruct production. Yet the maintenance of adequate barriers must not rely solely on the operations organisation in a way that makes this control task insurmountable. It lies on the organisation itself to find the adequate balance between the different types of passive and active barriers, and a certain amount of trial and error is necessary in this process. 

More explicitly, experience transfer from the day-to-day operation to the management levels of a company will support in  

Experience feedback on barrier efficiency is a challenge in well defended systems, where there are many independent barriers operating simultaneously. This applies especially to the passive barriers. The operators will have limited contact with many of them in their day-to-day activities, and their efficiency will only be tested in rare circumstances, when there is an accident. We will discuss this problem further in Section 8.3. 

Design of reliable machinery and equipment in order to minimise the personnel s exposine to hazards in connection with correction of disturbances and repair. 

Introduction of guards and other types of barriers to prevent people from coming in contact with the danger zone. 

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