Ensuring Safety of a Bread Packaging Line

The diploma thesis explains how we ensure safety on a bread packaging line and also addresses ensuring the safety of machinery in general. Machine safety is the foundation for safe collaboration between humans and machines. The basic set of rules for designing safe machinery is the Technical Requirements and Conformity Assessment Act and the subordinate regulation – the Machinery Safety Regulation, which fully incorporates the European Machinery Directive, containing numerous provisions which, if observed, enable us to achieve safe machinery.

Problem

The diploma thesis explains how we ensure safety on a bread packaging line and also addresses ensuring the safety of machinery in general. Machine safety is the foundation for safe collaboration between humans and machines. In what follows, we explain what we must pay attention to regarding safety and how machinery safety is implemented.

Legislation is also presented, as it is very important in creating new products as well as machinery. Manufacturers must comply with legislation in order to launch a product onto the market or into operation.

Solution and Method

The basic set of rules for designing safe machinery is the Technical Requirements and Conformity Assessment Act and the subordinate regulation – the Machinery Safety Regulation, which fully incorporates the European Machinery Directive, containing numerous provisions which, if observed, enable us to achieve safe machinery. The CE marking is mandatory for launching new machinery onto the European market. Manufacturers may issue the CE marking themselves, but they must ensure that they have designed their machinery in accordance with the principles of the Machinery Directive.

They will learn how to identify hazards as well as how to deal with measures for preventing accidents. The safety of a product or machine is of key importance for a smooth work process, which can be achieved not only through safe design but also by observing the manufacturer's instructions for safe work and training machine operators. A machine is considered safe if, during its regular use and in the event of reasonably foreseeable misuse, no hazard can occur.

They will learn how manufacturers approach ensuring safety on their machines from the very beginning, from design, manufacture, installation of the machine and use. During the design and manufacture of machinery, the manufacturer assesses all possible hazards and hazardous points through risk assessment. On this basis, the manufacturer of the machine adopts appropriate design measures to eliminate or reduce the risk.

If it cannot be eliminated or if the residual risk cannot be transferred, the manufacturer of the machine must select and use appropriate protective devices and, where necessary, provide information on residual risks. The packaging line in a company that produces food products is composed of several machines and thus forms an assembly of machinery. Instructions will be presented on how the operator safely uses the assembly of machinery as well as the obligations and responsibilities of employers themselves.