Safety ServicesSafety System Design and Verification

Rockwell Automation Safety System Design and Verification Services provides a comprehensive design to help ensure the safety of employees as dictated by OSHA and/or international safety standards. Our Safety System Design consists of a comprehensive circuit design, proper application of safety devices and design review to improve safety in your facility.

Safety is Good Business

In light of recently developed global safety standards and technologies, manufacturing safety is emerging as a powerful tool that combines workplace safety with long sought after production capacity improvements. These innovative safety strategies and technologies not only reduce injuries; they provide significant improvements in manufacturing productivity and efficiency through improved machine uptime. Around the globe, manufacturing leaders are beginning to realize – “Safety is Good Business!”

By choosing Rockwell Automation to help with your safety system design and verification you can count on our decades of industry experience to help you successfully integrate safety devices throughout your facility.

To learn more about Rockwell Automation Safety System and Design Verification services, visit www.rockwellautomation.com/services/safety

Circuit Design

We will review your machine safety circuit for compliance to your specified safety circuit performance level. We recommend you select from one of the following standards:

• ISO 13849-2 Safety of Machinery – Safety Related Parts of Control Systems

• ANSI B11.TR3 Technical Report for Risk Assessment

• ANSI / RIA R15.06 Requirements for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems

Your completed analysis will include:

• A description of the analysis that includes portions of the circuit not meeting desired standards

• A “redline” markup noting areas of nonconformance

Application of Safety Devices

Rockwell Automation safety engineers will help ensure that safety devices are properly applied to protect personnel. Additionally, to facilitate compliance with applicable US and/or ISO safety standards we will panel and wiring designs, helping you achieve plant certification goals.

Design Review

After implementing recommended circuit design changes and the application of safety devices, Rockwell Automation Safety System Validation Services will validate equipment to ensure that hazards have been reduced. Our thorough validation includes:

• Physical inspection and testing of each safety input and output device

• Physical fault induction for each type of safety input and output device as well as logic testing for each fault tested

• Verification of the safety system logic associated with each safety input device

• Reset function tested for each type of input and output device• Testing of devices in each mode of operation• Inspection for compliance of guarding design per ANSI

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Safety Lifecycle

STEP 3: Safety System

Design & Verification

STEP 4: Safety System Installation &

Validation

STEP 2: Safety System

Functional Requirements

STEP 1: Assessment

STEP 5: Maintain &

Improve Safety System

B11.19 and/or applicable international safety standards• Validation of e-stop, jog and safety system bypass

functionality per NFPA 79 and ANSI/RIA R15.06 or other desired standards

• Validation of the safety circuit performance per NFPA and ANSI/RIA standards or other specified standards

• Inspection of the electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic prints for compliance prior to arriving on site

• Inspection of the bill of materials on prints for safety component compliance prior to arriving on site

• Validation report and electronic validation checklist for each machine with validation procedures for fault testing. If a machine is out of compliance for guarding design issues, a sketch will be provided with the non-conformance details. If a machine is out of compliance for safety circuit performance reasons, a condensed report will be provided with the non-conformance details.