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Donaldson Filters machine safety

Client

Donaldson Filters

Location

Wyong, NSW

About The Project

Donaldson Filters is a leading manufacturer of air filtration equipment and systems with a significant facility in Wyong, NSW. Donaldson’s Safety Committee had undertaken an internal risk assessment of its plant and identified several high-risk areas that needed to be addressed. Donaldson wanted a machine safety specialist to audit the facility and provide adequate and practical solutions to ensure it conformed with AS4024.1

CNF was engaged as machine safety specialists to:

  • Inspect the installation and come up with solutions to the high-risk areas.
  • Provide a program of priority works to improve machine safety in the facility and, over time, attain AS4024.1 compliance.

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Major Achievements

  • Determined compliance to AS4024.1 of safety devices and control systems.
  • Designed new mechanical guarding for equipment that failed to meet the minimum requirements of the appropriate standard.
  • Developed a functional description for operating the new guarding.

Project Innovations

  • Developing a guard design with the flexibility to allow different sized materials to be fed into the press.
  • The design ensured only readily available materials and methods of construction were used.
  • A 3D presentation of the front guarding assembly was developed to help the Donaldson team visualise the concept and see how it would be constructed.

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