BGIA Report 2/2008E
BGIA Report 2/2008e Functional safety of machine controls − Application of EN ISO 13849 − Care has been taken in the translation of this report from German. In case of any doubt consider the German version: Funktionale Sicherheit von Maschinensteue- rungen – Anwendung der DIN EN ISO 13849 – (BGIA-Report 2/2008, 2nd ed. Dec. 2008, and Erratum as of June 2009) Authors: Michael Hauke, Michael Schaefer, Ralf Apfeld, Thomas Boemer, Michael Huelke, Torsten Borowski, Karl-Heinz Büllesbach, Michael Dorra, Hans-Georg Foermer-Schaefer, Wolfgang Grigulewitsch, Klaus-Dieter Heimann, Burkhard Köhler, Michael Krauß, Werner Kühlem, Oliver Lohmaier, Karlheinz Meffert, Jan Pilger, Günter Reuß, Udo Schuster, Thomas Seifen, Helmut Zilligen BGIA – Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance, Sankt Augustin Editorial office: Central Division of the BGIA – Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance Published by: German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) Mittelstr. 51 10117 Berlin Germany Tel.: +49 30 288763-800 Fax: +49 30 288763-808 Internet www.dguv.de − June 2009 − ISBN: 978-3-88383-793-2 ISSN: 1869-3491 Functional safety of machine controls – Application of EN ISO 13849 – Abstract The EN ISO 13849 standard, “Safety of machinery – Safety-related parts of control systems”, contains provisions governing the design of such parts. This report de- scribes the essential subject-matter of the standard in its heavily revised 2006 edi- tion, and explains its application with reference to numerous examples from the fields of electromechanics, fluidics, electronics and programmable electronics, including control systems employing mixed technologies. The standard is placed in its context of the essential safety requirements of the Machinery Directive, and possible methods for risk assessment are presented.
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