A Safety Light Curtain is a assurance device, advised to assure operators and added cadre alive about a potentially alarming machine. Before installing or application a assurance ablaze blind the following
requirements accept to be met:
• The apparatus on which a Safety Light Curtain is installed accept to be able of endlessly motion anywhere in its achievement or cycle. For example, do not use a ablaze blind on a ability columnist with a full-revolution clutch.
• Do not use a ablaze blind on any accessory with an inconsistent endlessly time or bare ascendancy accessories or mechanisms.
• Do not use a ablaze Safety Light Curtain the environment; such as astringent smoke, chapped amount or acerb chemicals; may abase the ability of the ablaze curtain.
• Be acquainted - ablaze curtains do not action aegis from aerial objects.
• In any accession area the light curtain is acclimated as a assurance device, the employer has the albatross to ensure that all applicative federal, accompaniment and bounded government requirements are satisfied. In addition, the employer accept to ensure that all apparatus operators, die setters,maintenance personnel, electricians,supervisors, foremen, etc. are accustomed with and accept all instructions
regarding the able use of the ablaze curtain, the accouterment on which it is installed and the adapted assurance regulations.
• All safety-related apparatus ascendancy ambit elements, including pneumatic, electric, or hydraulic controls accept to accept a top assurance achievement level.
• Any ability columnist which uses a light curtain accept to accommodated the requirements and analysis procedures of OSHA adjustment 1910.217, ANSI standards B11.1 and B11.19, additional any added applicable
state and bounded regulations. All added accouterment or accessories accept to accommodated OSHA accepted 1910.212 on accepted apparatus attention additional any added applicative regulations, codes and standards.
• Do not use a ablaze blind as a lockout accessory to amuse the US Federal OSHA lockout/tagout requirements.
• Additional guarding, such as automated guards, may be appropriate if the ablaze blind does not assure all areas of access to the point of operation hazard.
• All brakes and added endlessly mechanisms and controls have to be inspected consistently to ensure able alive order. If the stop mechanisms and accessory controls are not alive properly, the
machine may not stop cautiously even admitting the light curtain is functioning
properly.
• The analysis action have to be performed at accession and afterwards any maintenance, adjustment, adjustment or modification to the light curtain or the machine. In addition, the tests have to aswell be performed afterwards Channel Select or Floating Blanking is enabled or disabled.
Testing ensures that the light curtain and the apparatus ascendancy arrangement plan properly
to stop the machine. A sample analysis action is included in this section.
• All procedures in the accession and operating chiral have to be followed for able operation of the ablaze curtain. The administration of these requirements is above Omron STI’s control. The employer
has the sole albatross to chase the above-mentioned requirements and any added procedures, altitude and requirements specific to your machinery.