Seminar | 2018-05-24 | VILNIUS | Application of the Technical Regulation “Safety of Machinery” in practice and risk assessment methodologies for work equipment

We want to share with you more than 20 years of accumulated good experience, knowledge and insights in solving technical safety issues of equipment in Lithuanian companies. Our partners - German TÜV engineers have been solving technical safety issues since the advent of the first industrial steam engines for more than 140 years.
Why this is important:
About 100,000 accidents occur annually in Lithuania due to work equipment operating in companies.
17% serious and fatal accidents at work. Company managers and their authorized persons are responsible for the proper selection, safe use and maintenance of equipment, but unfortunately few have learned from the mistakes of others...
Seminar objective:
- To introduce the main requirements of the Technical Regulation "Safety of Machinery", legal acts and standards regulating the safety of work equipment in a simple, understandable way and using practical examples.
- To teach how to apply the principles of risk assessment of work equipment in practice and to carry out accident prevention using technical equipment.
Target audience:
OSH specialists, technical managers, technologists, designers, engineers, equipment maintenance technicians, etc.
Main topics of the seminar:
- Causes of accidents when using work equipment , case law and painful lessons for company managers
- Scope of application of the Technical Regulation "Safety of Machinery" and basic requirements for the design and manufacture of safe equipment
- How to prepare a proper technical file? EC declaration of conformity and CE marking
- The main OSH violations of work equipment used in the company, as determined by the State Labor Inspectorate.
- Principles of risk assessment of work equipment. Common design errors.
- Equipment safety components and automated systems.
- Safety and risk assessment of old work equipment.
- Practical tasks, questions and answers and consultations
Seminar lecturers:
| Stasys Joneikis
VDI Šiaulių skyr. vedėjo pavaduotojas – vyriausiasis darbo inspektorius |
Raimedas Burba
TUVLITA Technikos kontrolės tarnybos direktorius, DSS ekspertas |
Vilius Žaržeckis
TUVLITA Konsultavimo tarnybos DSS specialistas – praktikas |
Tomas Jušmanovas
UAB BOPLALIT CMSE mašinų saugos ekspertas |
Irma Spudienė
UAB DSP Plius, direktorė, asmens apsaugos priemonių parinkimo ir tinkamo naudojimo ekspertė |
Price (investment in qualification): EUR 55.00 + VAT (a certificate will be issued to seminar participants)
Location: MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY, Ateities St. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius (I-414 – Conference Hall)
PROGRAM (subject to change)
8.30 – 9.00 Participant registration
9:00 – 9.10 Welcome speech and introduction by the organizer.
9:10 – 10.00 Causes of accidents when using work equipment, case law and painful lessons for company managers. How to learn from other people's mistakes?
Lecturer: Raimedas Burba, Director of the Technical Control Service of UAB TUVLITA, OSH expert
10:00 – 11:00 Scope of the Technical Regulation "Safety of Machinery" and basic requirements for the design and manufacture of safe equipment. How to prepare a proper technical file? EC declaration of conformity and CE marking
What's hiding between the lines of a complex text? About the essence in simple terms.
Lecturer: Raimedas Burba, Director of the Technical Control Service of UAB TUVLITA, OSH expert
11.00 – 12.00 Main OSH violations of work equipment used in the company, as determined by the State Labor Inspectorate. Main causes of OSH and most common mistakes made by companies. Examples and tips from VDI inspection practice.
Lecturer: Stasys Joneikis, Deputy Head of the Šiauliai Department of the State Labour Inspectorate – Chief Labour Inspector
12:00 – 12.45 Coffee and snack break | Personal protective equipment and equipment safety systems stand demonstration | Consultations
12.45 – 13.00 Innovations in occupational safety measures when working with machines – ergonomics and technologies
Lecturer: Irma Spudiene, UAB DSP Plius, Director
13.00 – 13.30 Principles of risk assessment of work equipment. Most common design errors.
Overview of ISO 12100:2010. Practical examples of the application of assessment methodologies.
Lecturer: Raimedas Burba, Director of the Technical Control Service of UAB TUVLITA, OSH expert
13:30 – 14.30 Equipment safety components and automated systems.
The safety of modern industrial equipment and workers is inseparable from modern automation solutions. Overview of the latest safety components and systems capabilities and presentation of functionality (
years of breaks – consultations at the demonstration stand)
Lecturer: Tomas Jušmanovas, UAB BOPLALIT, TUV Certified Machinery Safety Expert (CMSE)
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee break
14:45 – 15.30 Safety and risk assessment of old work equipment.
Methodologies for "revitalizing" old equipment (put into use before 2004) in accordance with the requirements of the General Provisions for the Use of Work Equipment. Practical examples of the application of assessment methodologies.
Lecturer: Vilius Žaržeckis , UAB TUVLITA Consulting Service DSS Specialist - Practitioner
15:30 – 16.15 Seminar review and knowledge consolidation, questions – answers and consultations. Sharing of practical experience of seminar participants, comments and insights…?
Lecturer: Raimedas Burba, Director of the Technical Control Service of UAB TUVLITA, OSH expert
16.15 – 16.30 General questions and consultations. Individual consultations
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