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DEFINITION
An emergency stop function is intended:
Remember that the person using the emergency stop may not
necessarily be the person in danger! It may, therefore, be prudent to
position an emergency stop near an adjacent machine, or machine
zone in the case of a complex system, giving the neighbouring operator
the opportunity to stop the machine if the operator gets into trouble.
— The control circuits for emergency stop of duplicated equipment shall be arranged as two
separate circuits with separate cables. A common stop button with several contacts (separate for
each consumer) will be accepted.
— The emergency stop signal shall act independently of any software based control system for
the same consumer.
— A computer based emergency stop systems shall be independent from other computer based
systems with control functions for the same consumers. It shall have facilities to detect failures
that will set the system inoperable, and give alarm to the main alarm system. See DNV-OS-D202.
— Alarm for loss of power shall be provided for normally open emergency stop circuits.
DNV GUIDANCE
Emergency stop systems may be based on both
normally open (NO) and normally closed (NC)
circuits.
SEALING
FRONT PLATE
FIXING NUT
SWITCHING ELEMENT