| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 環境與安全衛生工程研究所 === 102 === The Ministry of Labor has passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act to enhance the safety of machines and equipments in Taiwan and to effectively reduce mechanical hazards by turning the end-management safety inspecting system into a source-control safety verification system. This act considerably transfers the responsibility for operational safety from employers to designers and manufacturers and relieves much of the users’ responsibility for occupational safety.
Though the Occupational Safety and Health Act has been proclaimed and will be implemented phase by phase, the structure of the mechanical safety verification system is still indefinite. This study therefore sought to establish a national security model for all machines and equipments by referring to the “Operational Safety and Health Act,” other related laws and acts, the Chinese National Standards (CNS), and the “Comprehensive Mechanical Safety Guideline” and by experimenting with the injection molding machine as the simulator. The study not only completed a risk assessment but further utilized the results of hazard identification and risk assessment to implement safety measures – concerning intrinsically safe design, safety protection and improvement, and subsidiary safety protection – remnant risk warning, and information disclosure in the research vehicle.
By consulting the safety model established in the “Comprehensive Mechanical Safety Guideline” and implementing it in a real vehicle, this study proved that the “Comprehensive Mechanical Safety Guideline” not only conforms to Article 5 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act but can also serve as the assessment criterion to examine the implementation and qualification of Article 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
This study has devised the developmental and designing procedure to enhance mechanical safety, and it is expected that this procedure will serve as a legal model for the designers and manufacturers of machines and equipments in our country to follow.
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