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The Risk Identification & Assessment study will include the following points:

• The determination of the Health and Safety requirements that the machines and/or machine assemblies must meet based on European directives as well as proposed measures, for which harmonized standards of the European Union will be taken into account. The purpose of the proposed measures is to minimize or eliminate the risk while taking into account the needs and specificities of the production process of the line.
• The proposed measures will reflect all the requirements and specifications of the barriers and electrosensitive safety equipment and will result from interviews with the machine operators, monitoring of the production processes by specialized engineers who will go to the factory and conduct on-site visits. The measures will be finalized after consultation and consensus with the competent production engineers, the technical management and the company's Health and Safety management.
• For each identified risk, a special risk sheet will be produced with appropriate name coding, which will depict the finding, the dangerous zone, the risk assessment, the proposed measures and finally the assessment of the remaining risk after the measures (technical and/or organizational) have been taken.
• All identified points will be recorded on a Matrix table from which the findings can be managed and the actions monitored.

The LOTOTO process will include the following stages:

• Positioning the equipment to be intervened in a “zero energy state”.
• Safe and discrete isolation of the equipment from all power supply networks that serve it.
• Placing isolation signs on the equipment.
• Checking the isolation of the equipment and test starting the equipment from all possible starting points to confirm the impossibility of voluntary starting.
• “Test starting” of the device (perhaps the most dangerous) where the isolation points are partially removed in order for the intervention personnel to perform the necessary equipment functions for the intervention.
• Restarting the device and returning it to the production process by a specific and authorized employee. During this stage, the removal and collection of the locks, the restoration of the interruptions and the assurance that all LOTO equipment has been removed from the machines are carried out in a completely controlled manner.
• The Instructions that will be drawn up will be accompanied by visual material (photographs, diagrams, illustrations of the zones and equipment on the layouts of the machines, etc.) so that the points involved and the corresponding application equipment are immediately understandable.
•  After the completion of the study, the corresponding training texts will be prepared and be presented to the operators - maintainers of these lines in a "live" presentation. Upon completion of each course, an individual "Training Certificate" will be issued separately for each trainee.