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Winners 2023 of the Safety Award issued by the ISSA Section Machine and System Safety
The video was recorded at the Make It Safe Health and Safety Conference in Canada, October 2023:
https://safetyalliancebc.ca/makeitsafe/session/issa-machine-and-system-safety-section-safety-award/
The award ceremony took place on Nov. 29th, 2023 at the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in Sydney.
Altendorf GmbH: Their Hand Guard™ system is integrated in panel saws and utilizes cameras for advanced hand recognition which leads to an immediate disappearance of the saw blade at any dangerous approach to the blade. This technology is based on specific hand characteristics that have been developed by artificial intelligence. This new approach can be transferred to other machines and has already experienced a wide spread over all regions globally.
Grasselli Spa: Their skinner safety system consists of conductive gloves protected by overwearing isolation gloves. The machine is immediately stopped in case that the isolation glove has been damaged by skinner knives and that the conductive glove thus has contact with the machine. As this system has been on the market for quite some time and that the market presence is accordingly well established, the extra cost of this safety system is fairly low and the impact with a drop down by 90% of respective accidents in the UK extremely remarkable.
Scott Automation & Robotics: The BladeStop™ Safety Bandsaws combine a Glovecheck vision sensing system that detects the colour of the glove, along with a secondary body-sensing system which continuously monitors the operator’s skin. If either glove colour is detected to line up with the trajectory of the blade or skin contact on any part of the body is detected against the blade, the machine is stopped within milliseconds to protect the operator. Being the fastest stopping safety bandsaw in the world means operators can go home with their fingers intact, even when the vision system fails to detect the colour of the operator’s glove. A specific brake mechanism has been engineered to focus on the speed of stopping, which correlates directly to severity of injury. This innovative system is being sold all over the world and utilized in various industry sectors.
Contact: scholl(at)ivss.org