Machine Safety Overview

Machinery Safety Education, Assessment and Risk Identification, Engineering and Design, Integration, and Implementation...

Education - Provide your employees with an understanding of machine and process safeguarding basics using our one and two day machine safety seminars

Assessment and Risk Identification - Build a foundation for a safer, more productive manufacturing operation. Know the hazards presented by your equipment and processes through our unique, standards-based assessment process. Quantify the risks and how to mitigate them. Omron can supply the plan.

Engineering and Design - Proper safety circuit design and product selection are an important part of creating a safe and productive manufacturing floor. With the resources of one of the world's leading industrial automation and safety companies, Omron is uniquely qualified to help.

Integration and Implementation - Having options is important. With Omron you choose how much or how little of our support you'd like. From just a safety seminar to get you started and expand your knowledge base, to a complete, turnkey package that brings it all together - including operator training - no job is too large for Omron.

There's more to safety than simply installing a guard or safety light curtain. Properly executed, safety pays big dividends. For more detail on how our product and service offerings can you create a safer, more productive environment, please explore the information provided in the pages that follow.

Please call us with any questions or comments. We welcome the opportunity to partner with you for a safer, more productive, and profitable future.

Who thinks investing in safety equipment and programs impacts the bottom line?

• 61% of executives claim that for every dollar spent on investments in workplace safety $3 are saved (according to a poll by the Liberty Mutual Group)

• 95% of the executives in the poll indicate workplace safety has a positive impact on a company's financial performance

• OSHA's Office of Regulatory Affairs reports an even more dramatic result; suggesting $4 to $6 are saved for every $1 invested

The Cost of Safety

Estimating the financial costs in advance of an injury is difficult. Fortunately, OSHA's interactive $afety Pays website offers assistance.

Using insurance company claims data, the tool calculates the estimated direct and indirect costs of an injury. Also, if you enter your profit margin information, $afety Pays will project the additional sales required to recover the costs of the injury.

Consider a simple example: Assume that a company has annual sales of $10 million with an 8% pre-tax profit margin. For a single accident resulting in an amputation, $afety Pays estimates the costs of the injury as follows:

Average Direct Cost: $21,718
Average Indirect Cost: $23,890
Estimated Total Cost: $45,608

The additional sales revenue necessary to cover these costs are:

Total Cost: $570,100

In other words, the next 5.7% of sales growth will go solely to pay for the total cost of the accident. If your pre-tax margins are less, the sales impact is even greater.

Indirect costs account for the majority of accident expenses but are not typically covered by insurance.

One final note - the answers returned by $afety Pays may be conservative with regard to the ratio of indirect-to-direct costs which is almost 1:1. A poll by Liberty Mutual Group estimates the actual figure may be 5:1 while an American Society of Safety Engineers study suggests a ratio of 8:1.

Machine Assessment Services

Now Machine Assessment Services are available in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand and it will be conducted by Omron STI engineering partner, Aurora Technology Pte Ltd.

Please call/email us for any enquiry if machine assessment services are required outside the mentioned 3 countries.

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