What You Need to Know About Robot Safety Standards
A Q&A with A3’s Carole Franklin
With more industries adopting robotic systems to provide greater efficiency and productivity, the need to ensure employees are safe around robots has never been higher. For over 40 years, the Association for Advancing Automation (also known as A3) has played a leading role in assuring that the robotics industry continues to proactively assess the safety environment and provide safety resources as robotic applications become more advanced, more capable and more popular.
Not only does A3 host the International Robot Safety Conference each year, but since 1982, A3 has supported industrial robot safety as a standards-developing organization (SDO) for both American (ANSI) and international (ISO) organizations. We sat down with Carole Franklin, director of standards development at A3, to talk about the importance of safety standards for robot systems and the different requirements needed to ensure safe deployments.