Kewl. Jokab has some good stuff.
A few years back I was asked to provide an independent review of how a woman got her hands smashed in a machine with two hand control when the two hand control was found to be fully functional. When I got to the customer site I noticed that the machine had un-shrounded PF softstart buttons. The woman wouldn't tell us how the accident happened, but eventually I realized that she leaned into the machine while adjusting some tooling and activated the soft-touch buttons with her breasts. Once we figured it out, she admitted that was what had happened. I had them move the switches and mount them so they were vertical - one facing right, the other left, instead of horizontal in the same plane.
REPLY Only verifies / corroborates Murphy's law and a very common saying in the safety business
Just when you think you got em all covered some boob finds a way to screw it up.
That could not happen with those Jokab safety balls.
REPLY They do look pretty good on the web page
BUT don't count on it
- I am not going to dare getting anatomical on this one.
I have often wondered about taking 12 year old kids and having them test for fool proof on safety designs OR take the clowns who are "accident prone" and turning them loose - just don't let them have a real machine.
Dan Bentler
Dan Bentler