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What does a safety standard convert a duty into?
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A hazard, a test and a limit — so the same product either passes or does not, and two people can agree about the result.
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Name the safety hierarchy.
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Design the hazard out; if it must exist, guard or interlock it; warn only when neither is possible. Relying on the user is never a safety measure.
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Why is a standard called accumulated knowledge?
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Every clause exists because something went wrong somewhere, usually to somebody. No individual designer could discover all of those hazards alone.
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What does conformity to a standard NOT establish?
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That the product is safe for your users in your context. A standard written for adults says nothing about a nursery, and one tested dry says nothing about wet hands.
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