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Strategies for ensuring safety with industrial robot systems

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  • Jones, R.
  • Dawson, S

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The use of industrial robots is considered from the viewpoint of the strategies employed to ensure health and safety. The British legal context for health and safety is reviewed as a background and a framework of strategies for ensuring safety is utilised to discuss research findings from 6 companies on 84 robots. Some problems with the systems' operations and the adaptations that resulted are considered. The study shows that the strategic means of hazard anticipation and control varied considerably, that systematic circumvention took place and that an over-reliance upon physical safeguards occurred whilst those related to people and their interactions with the systems were often neglected.

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  • Jones, R. & Dawson, S, 1986. "Strategies for ensuring safety with industrial robot systems," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 14(4), pages 287-297.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jomega:v:14:y:1986:i:4:p:287-297
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