June 18, 2013
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The Mineral Wells Index
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 12:35 PM CDT
By CHRIS AGEE
As part of its commitment to community outreach, Ram Country of Mineral Wells will be providing fingerprinting and other services via Operation Kidsafe.
Parents can take part in the program beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday and the program will be available during business hours from that point forth.
According to its website, Operation Kidsafe is a program developed through consultation with FBI, police, and fingerprinting authorities.
Children can have their fingerprints and photograph digitally captured and parents take home a printed copy of the results. Documents can be updated at a later date with current photographs.
Parents whose children have been to Operation Kidsafe can contact law enforcement in the event a child is missing or has been kidnapped. Once informed the identifying document is available, police will have access to the potentially vital information.
Children will also receive educational material to help them avoid compromising situation as well as information about enacting a family safety action plan.
Operation Kidsafe does not retain any of the information gathered and the only record of the visit is the document given to parents. In the case of an emergency, though, the document is easily published for distribution and entry into the National Crime Computer.
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Firefighters are urging residents in Melbourne’s inner north-east to be vigilant with fire safety this winter to avoid a repeat of last year’s devastation.
In 2012 the fire brigade responded to more than 3800 house fires across Victoria and 12 people died.
There were 551 fires in Melbourne, Yarra, Darebin and Moreland, causing almost $9 million damage.
More than 40 per cent of the fires occurred in the City of Melbourne, but fires in Moreland were more severe, with an average damage bill of $29,000.
Metropolitan Fire Brigade chief executive Nick Easy, launching the Home Fire Safety Campaign to coincide with the start of winter, reminded residents to consider the fire safety of elderly people who live alone.
“Many people only associate fire dangers with the hotter summer months but home fires are also a real risk to Victorians during the cooler months,” he said.
Emergency Services Minister Kim Wells said residents could take simple precautions.
“Faulty electrical appliances can put your house, your life, and the life of your family members at risk, as can something as simple as having your clothes too close to the heater,” he said.
“Many of them seem obvious but it is easy to forget, something like switching off the electric blanket before you go to sleep.”
He reminded residents to never leave cooking, heaters, open fires or candles unattended and not to overload power boards.
Ensuring smoke alarms have working batteries also reduced the risk of severe damage by fire.
To download a home fire-safety checklist, visit homefiresafety.com.au.
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Headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, OMRON Corporation is a global leader in the field of automation. Established in 1933, Omron has more than 35,000 employees in over 35 countries working to provide products and services to customers in a variety of fields including industrial automation, electronic components, social systems, healthcare, and the environment. The company has regional head offices in Singapore (Asia Pacific), Beijing (Greater China), Amsterdam (Europe, Africa, and the Middle East), Chicago (the Americas), Gurgaon (India), and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
For more information, visit OMRON’s website at http://www.omron.com/
Kyoto, Japan — OMRON Corporation (TSE: 6645, ADR: OMRNY) today announced the release in June of its new NX series safety control units.
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EtherCAT slave terminal NX series safety control units
Safety CPU unit NX-SL3300
Safety input units NX-SIH400 / NX-SID800
Safety output units NX-SOH200 / NX-SOD400
The products are integrated in the Sysmac automation platform, launched in July 2011. This is a new EtherCAT-compatible modular I/O system that allows motion, standard I/O, and safety control to be integrated into machine control systems using NJ series machine automation controller.
The NX series safety control units offer simple and flexible design for high-speed, high-precision motion control and safety control in an integrated engineering environment when used in conjunction with the NJ series machine automation controller and the automation software Sysmac Studio. This functionality contributes to productivity improvements and assurance of safety conforming to international standards and rules.
Machine designers are now required to design globally competitive production machinery, so they must design motion and safety control simultaneously, while increasing their knowledge of machine design in order to conform to international safety standards, resulting in a heavy workload. Moreover, it is expected that machine downtime can be minimized by reducing the amount of machine design work, safety verification work, and maintenance work.
Omron’s new NX series safety control units were designed to meet these needs.
Features
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Reducing machine and safety design work
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The safety control units support Safety over EtherCAT*2 protocol. This support realizes One Connection, mixing safety control data and standard machine control data (included motion) in one EtherCAT network.
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EtherCAT slaves with the same modular design as the standard NX I/O units for sequence control allow flexible connection to all devices: safety CPU units, safety I/O units, and standard I/O units. This configuration simplifies flexible system design to meet variable end-user specifications.
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The safety input unit can be directly connected to safety sensors and safety switches which can detect workers in machine areas, and the safety output unit to servo drives and inverters with safety functions. This connection reduces the work required for safety device selection and connectivity testing. If Omron’s safety devices are used for inputs, logic, and outputs, it is easy to evaluate the performance level (PL*3).
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The automation software Sysmac Studio now includes programming for safety control, which enables programming integrated with sequence and motion control. Previously, safety control had to be designed separately from sequence and motion control through the design cycles only for safety including design, verification, debugging, test operation, startup, improvement, and addition of functions. Now the Sysmac Studio enables the same operability and GUI*4 as those of sequence and machine control design to be used for safety control design, which simplifies the design process.
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The automation software Sysmac Studio supporting IEC 61131-3 programming language (function block diagram), as recommended by PLCopen, can be used all over the world. This usage drastically reduces the time required for designers to master design procedures and programming rules, and it simplifies the sharing of programs globally.
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Modular structures can be built up for each program when designing safety control. The modularized safety programs can be reused for other designs, and the amount of device verification work required for validation of the entire system can be reduced.
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Programming with variables is used for safety design. The global variables with easy-to-understand names help error free programming when designing complex interfaces among the control components such as I/O devices, motion devices, and safety devices.
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Minimizing machine downtime by reducing maintenance work
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Unified troubleshooting in the automation software Sysmac Studio is now available for the safety units. Because safety system controls the power circuit for machine control, an error in safety system results in stopping production. Unified troubleshooting in the Sysmac studio provides the information required for maintenance: when, which unit, and why operation stopped, as well as how to resolve the error. This troubleshooting minimizes machine downtime.
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A safety I/O unit can be removed and added without a computer or a tool. Because the unit parameters are automatically set by the ACR*5 function, reduced system downtime contributes to improved productivity.
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Downsizing the system and the control panel with compact units
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The width of the safety I/O unit is 12 mm. The required width of the new unit is reduced by approximately 70% compared to Omron’s existing remote I/Os*6 for EtherCAT with terminal blocks, which reduces the size of the system and the control panel.
Specifications
The safety control units meet PLe and safety category 4 according to EN ISO 13849-1 and SIL 3 according to IEC 61508.
Safety input unit
Model
NX-SIH400
NX-SID800
Number of safety input points
4 points
8 points
Number of test output points
2 points
2 points
Internal I/O common
PNP (sinking inputs)
OMRON special safety input devices*
Can be connected.*
Cannot be connected.
Dimensions
12(W) x 100(H) x 71(D)
*OMRON special safety input devices (Non-contact Door Switches, Safety Mat, Safety Edges and so on) can be connected directly without a special controller.
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U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall have urged a Senate panel to revisit Federal Railroad Administration safety regulations requiring trains to blare their horns when approaching and passing through crossings.
“Municipal leaders from Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont, Greeley, Windsor and Denver, Colorado, have expressed concerns to our offices that train horn noise is a nuisance for local residents and that it stifles economic development by discouraging businesses and housing developers from building and locating in the heart of their communities,” Udall and Bennet wrote in a June 13 letter.
“This is especially true for downtown areas that are focused on urban renewal and are invested in building healthy and walkable
neighborhoods,” the Colorado Democrats wrote to Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo.
Warner is the chairman, and Blunt the ranking Republican member, of the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security, a panel scheduled to hold a Tuesday hearing on railroad safety.
Read more of the article Colorado senators call for revisiting train horn safety regulations at TimesCall.com.
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June 18th, 2013 at 4:01 pm
When we just recently went to Busch Gardens, we were in the sun almost all day. Having a baby outside in the heat those hot rays can be dangerous and you should always be prepared. Keep it mind, it’s more then just sunscreen. It’s important to educate yourself in sun safety especially when you have a baby – it’s just as important for you too! So, let’s take a refresher on sun safety tips for baby and just what you need to know when hanging out under the sun!
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Phoenix Vice-Mayor Bill Gates hosted a free car seat safety event along with the Phoenix Fire Department and the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety on Saturday.
At the event, certified car seat technicians properly installed car seats and performed seat checks.
Many children are injured or killed in car accidents every year because they’re not properly restrained inside the vehicle. Firefighters say these tragedies can be easily prevented by making sure your child’s safety seat is installed correctly.
“If you’re not in the seat the correct way, you can still get injured in a crash,” said Capt. Robert Johnson of the Phoenix Fire Department. “If you’re 6 or 7-years-old, you need a booster seat to fit the seatbelts. Now if you’re 5 and under, you really can’t fit the seatbelts, so you have to be in a car seat properly restrained.”
During previous car seat inspections, the Phoenix Fire Dept. found that 4 out of every 5 car seats are installed incorrectly and one third of children were found to be riding in the wrong restraints for their age and size.
DALLAS – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Nix Forest Industries Inc. in Timpson, Texas, with 17 safety and health violations, including one willful, after a worker was killed in December 2012 when he was struck by a broken band saw blade and other workers were exposed to hazards at the sawmill.
The willful violation resulted from failing to use control procedures for hazardous energy when cleaning, removing debris and unjamming equipment and machinery. A willful violation is one committed with intentional, knowing or voluntary disregard for the law’s requirements, or with plain indifference to worker safety and health.
Some of the 14 serious safety violations cited include failing to provide easily understood lockout/tagout training for energy control, failing to certify that energy control training was completed and current and failing to ensure that tagout devices were affixed to clearly indicate the operation or movement of the energy isolating device. Violations were also cited for failing to guard machines, ensure that pulleys with parts less than 7 feet from the floor were guarded, ensure that entry point warning signs were posted at possible low carriage areas, ensure band saw wheels were completely enclosed or guarded, and ensure flexible cords and cables were not used as substitutes for fixed wiring. One health violation was cited for failing to administer an effective hearing conservation program for workers exposed to occupational noise. A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known.
An other-than-serious violation was cited for failing to ensure that an OSHA 300A injury and illness form was properly certified. An other-than-serious violation is one that has a direct relationship to job safety and health, but probably would not cause death or serious physical harm.
“Nix Forest Industries failed to take adequate measures to protect workers from a variety of hazards, including being struck-by and caught-between machinery and equipment,” said Stephen Boyd, OSHA’s area director in Dallas. “Following OSHA standards saves lives. This unfortunate loss of life could possibly have been avoided.”
The citations can be viewed at http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/NixForestIndustriesInc_771461_0603_13.pdf* and http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/NixForestIndustriesInc_798862_0603_13.pdf*.
Proposed penalties total $116,200. The company, which specializes in cutting lumber to size for its customers, has 15 business days from receipt of the citations and penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA’s Dallas area director or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA’s toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency’s Dallas office at 214-320-2400.
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA’s role is to ensure these conditions exist for America’s working men and women by setting and enforcing standards, and providing training, education and assistance. For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The initiative provides a runway safety checklist for airports and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) as well as key tips for both pilots and air traffic controllers.
Launching the initiative at the CANSO Global ATM Summit, CANSO director general, Jeff Poole, said: “Safety is our number one priority and the initiative on unstable approaches aims to reduce the risk of a significant runway incident or accident.
“By partnering with regulators, airports, airlines and ANSPs, CANSO has developed global safety tools that will make a major contribution to safe flying.”
A runway excursion is an event in which an aircraft veers off or overruns the runway surface during either take-off or landing.
Adverse weather conditions, mechanical failure, pilot error and unstable approaches are just a few of the factors that can cause a runway excursion, according to CANSO.
CANSO’s initiative focuses on unstable approaches, which has been identified by IATA as a contributing factor for 17% of accidents between 2008 and 2012.
Poole added: “Air traffic control (ATC) plays an important role in contributing to safe, stable approaches and reducing the risk of runway excursions. This includes ensuring that controllers appreciate what is required for a pilot to achieve a stabilised approach, issuing proper clearances and providing timely and accurate weather information.
“We have produced one-page easy-to-read ‘key tips’ for pilots and air traffic controllers (ATCOs) to make sure that aircraft are managed safely in the final stage of flight before landing.
“We are also focused on ensuring that the right systems are in place to improve runway safety overall through our Runway Safety Maturity Checklist.”
As well as the key tips for pilots and ATCOs, the material that is being launched includes a revised and updated education booklet Unstable Approaches – ATC Considerations, as well as an app that can be downloaded to smart devices such as tablets and smartphones at www.cansosafety.com.
The Runway Safety Maturity Checklist is designed to be used by ANSPs, airlines, airport operators, regulators and ATEL/ANAV providers to benchmark their levels of maturity with regard to managing runway safety risks.
It identifies key elements of risk control and uses a series of questions to assess the maturity of an organisation against each element.
The material is based on risk models developed by controllers, pilots, airport operators, regulatory and safety specialists from around the world.
“CANSO will now work with its industry partners, governments and regulators to roll out these materials and to ensure widespread adoption and awareness across the industry,” said Poole.
“We urge all organisations to take advantage of the best practices that are contained in the key tips, app, booklet and other materials in order to achieve significant improvements in runway safety.”
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SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) — In addition to its nuclear power plants, the country is seeking to export its technologies and devices for safety of nuclear reactors, a move especially aimed at promoting exports by the country’s small- and medium-sized firms, the government said Monday.
Organized by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, three local manufacturers of nuclear safety devices, such as portable radiation detection kits, will stage product promotion events in Thailand and Singapore this week.
To further promote nuclear cooperation with the South Asian countries, the Korea Nuclear International Cooperation Foundation will sign two separate agreements on cooperation with Thailand’s leading bio-firm Pondpol Group and Singapore’s Biomedia Holdings Pte. Ltd., the ministry said.
“The signing of the agreements is expected to contribute to an expansion of the market in Southeast Asia for the country’s nuclear technologies and companies,” it said in a press release.
The ministry said the Thailand market was especially expected to show significant growth in recent years as it plans to set up a nationwide radiation detection system while also building storage units for spent nuclear fuel.
“The ministry will continue to offer various opportunities for overseas expansion for our small- and medium-sized firms by hosting overseas business fairs and product exhibition events,” it said.
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