Industrial Safety

The calculation of a company’s carbon footprint enables organizations to monitor, assess, and reduce their environmental impact, ensuring compliance with the Greek Climate Law (Law 4936/2022) while enhancing thesustainability of their operations.

Ergonomia, as a strategic partner of CarbonPlan, the first fully Greek carbon footprint management platform, provides reliable calculations, verified reports, and emission-reduction plans through a simple, transparent, and fully documented process.

It is generally common in industry, to proceed into machinery upgrades and modifications, to extend its lifetime or due to alternations into the production demand.

These upgrades may include:

Prevention or risk reduction of a hazardous situation or condition is usually accomplished nowadays using automation solutions (safety control system). The components which form the safety control system are called safety relative parts (SRP’s) and their proper and continuous operation should be ensured.

The user of machinery (company) and the manufacturer are obligated to provide all the necessary information regarding its safe operation. According to P.D. 395/1994 & P.D. 57/2010 (EU Directives 2010/42/EC & 2009/104/EC respectively) machinery should be equipped with the appropriate safety signs (labels), informing the users for unsafe situations, areas and equipment.

The labels shall:

Instructions for use are required for the machinery’s CE marking, and its safe use, according to Greek legislation (P.D. 57/2010, P.D. 395/94) and European Directives (EU Directives 2010/42/EC & 2009/104/EC respectively).

They shall provide adequate information for the user to be able to operate, maintain and transfer the machinery safely during its lifetime, considering its abnormal operation conditions that may occur and the residual hazards.

Σύμφωνα με το Π.Δ. 57/2010, προϋπόθεση για την τοποθέτηση σήμανσής CE σε ένα μηχάνημα είναι η σύνταξη Τεχνικού Φακέλου. Ο τεχνικός φάκελος περιλαμβάνει όλα τα απαραίτητα έγγραφα και τεκμήρια που σχετίζονται με την ασφάλεια του μηχανήματος.

Η Ελληνική Νομοθεσία (ΠΔ 395/1994) προβλέπει ότι τα μηχανήματα από την στιγμή που τίθενται σε λειτουργία θα πρέπει να ελέγχονται από τον χρήστη σχετικά με την καταλληλόλητά τους. Οι έλεγχοι αυτοί μπορεί να είναι είτε περιοδικοί είτε έκτακτοι.

Establishing a management system by a company is a major factor for addressing risks that correlate to the products and services provided, but also for its operation, in general. Moreover, it contributes essentially to the growth of productivity and protection of the environment, at the same time.

During the compilation of the "Explosion Protection Document" study, it is not rare that the spread or existence of explosive gases may capture extensive field areas. These areas are characterized as “Hazardous Areas” or “ATEX Zones". This is particularly the case for confined spaces where the prevailing ventilation conditions are characterized as 'inadequate' or 'unacceptable', since they cannot provide the necessary sweep of clean air into the space to safely and quickly remove the hazardous gas concentrations generated.

The use of extensive quantities of refrigerants in industrial refrigeration and air conditioning systems and the corresponding risks to personnel arising from the possibility of a relevant leakage of small or significant quantities of refrigerant gases, dictate the necessity of compliance with the EN 378 series of European standards (EN 378-1,2,3&4) regarding the "Safety and environmental requirements for refrigerating systems and heat pumps".