Role for Safety Managers

Safety managers should perform the following:

• Password management
• Training implementation

Password management

Safety managers should manage the following passwords:

• Epson RC+ security user password
• Safety function password
• Controller Ethernet connection password

Training implementation

Safety managers should ensure that personnel responsible for programming, operating, and maintaining the Manipulator and robot system undergo proper training. Also, they should make sure that personnel have the ability to safely perform that work.

Training should include at least the following items:

• Description of standard safety procedures and safety recommendations by robot manufacturers and robot system designers
• Description of the response to an emergency or abnormal situation (e.g., means of escape if caught in a Manipulator)
• Clear description of the work
• Description of all control devices required for the work and their functions
• Description of hazards associated with the work
• Specific methods to avoid foreseeable hazards, including safe work procedures
• Description of the method for testing the functions of safety devices and interlocks or description of the method to check that they are functioning properly
• Description of the method for checking safety function parameters and of the method for setting safety function parameters correctly