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Areas of Concern - Safety |
The medical device industry has several areas of concern for job safety:
- Unplanned maintenance of machinery is a major cause of high-risk events
- Skilled employees must often bypass machine safeguards to carry out maintenance
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from highly repetitive tasks
- Assembly line work exposes workers to maintaining a pace that may promote injury from trying to catch-up to moving line
- QS-9000 and TS/ISO standards of quality are effected by worker safety / injury
- Just-In-Time-Inventory can be impacted from the result of a serious injury
- A correlation of safety to quality effects the reputation of OEMs and manufacturer
- Robotic standards such as ANSI/RIA R15.06-1999 require high safety standards control circuit equipment
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