Product Safety

Product safety is paramount in industry today. Safety issues must be resolved quickly and thoroughly. Miles Loretta has served as chairman of Cincinnati Machine’s product safety committee. In this role, he conducted product safety audits, investigated accidents, reviewed and approved all safety signage.

Miles also served as chairman of an ANSI safety standard committee. This committee wrote a new United States safety standard for CNC machining centers.

In resolving safety issues it is important to use analysis tools that not only rate safety issues, but compares and analyzes potential solutions. Miles uses the H.A.S. (Hazard Analysis System) tool for this analysis. Through a process of team discussions and ratings, this tool assigns risk values to situations for comparing solutions.

Common rules for resolving safety issues:
1. Design out the hazard, if that’s not possible,
2. Design a safety interlock, if that’s not possible,
3. Warn about the hazard.

Miles has led many H.A.S. teams and has taught over 100 employees how to use this powerful tool.