Robot Safety 1989 NIOSH

This is clipped from the 1989 film, Robot Reality, from the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Robots are generally used to perform unsafe, hazardous, highly repetitive, and unpleasant tasks. They have many different functions such as material handling, assembly, welding, machine tool load and unload functions, painting, spraying, and so forth. Many robot accidents occur during non-routine operating conditions, such as programming, maintenance, testing, setup, or adjustment. During many of these operations the worker may temporarily be within the robot's working envelope where unintended operations could result in injuries. For current information on robot safety, link to http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/robotics/index.html .

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