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Chapter
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On safety
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On safety
This chapter deals with your own safety and the
safety of the equipment operators.
Please read this chapter carefully before working
with the T4000 series coded electronic safety
switches or with the machine protected by these
safety switches in conjunction with the related
guards.
The national/international rules and regulations
apply to the installation, commissioning, use and
periodic technical inspections of the T4000 series
safety switches, in particular
the machinery directive 2006/42/EC,
EMC directive 2004/108/EC,
for devices with ATEX marking the ATEX directive
94/9/EC,
Work Equipment Directive 89/655/EEC,
the work safety regulations/safety rules.
2.1
Qualified safety personnel
The T4000 series coded electronic safety switches
are only allowed to be placed in operation by quali-
fied safety personnel. Qualified safety personnel are
defined as persons who
have undergone the appropriate technical training
and
who have been instructed by the responsible
machine operator in the operation of the machine
and the current valid safety guidelines
and
who have access to these operating instructions.
Operating Instructions
T4000
8009704/US09/2010-12-20