Citation

Andersen O, Bell R, Meffert K, Vautrin JP. J. Occup. Accid. 1987; 9(2): 123-135.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

The Commission of the European Communities (CEC) funded a joint project between seven organisations. The project ran for 2 years from September 1983. The organisations already had programmes of research in the fields of Programmable Electronic Systems (PESs) and robotic safety. The CEC funding provided the opportunity to collaborate in the exchange of information which would, hopefully, lead to harmonization of approaches to assessment of PESs in this field across Europe.

The participating organisations were, in the United Kingdom, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) who were the co-ordinating body, and the National Centre of Systems Reliability (NCSR) ; in Germany the Berufsgenossenschaftliches Institut fur Arbeitssicherheit (BIA) and the Fraunhofer Institut fur Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA) ; in Denmark the Elektronik-centralen (EC) and Arbejdstilsynet (AT); and in France the Institut National de Recherche et de Securite (INRS). The collaborative project identified a number of Objectives to be achieved during the two year project (Bell, 1986).

The first part of the paper provides an overview of the project and its results and the second part looks at the future strategy for the use, development and review of the guidelines framework developed in the project.