ABSTRACT

The emergence of ‘smart’ or ‘intelligent’ personal protective systems (SPPS) raises new questions with regard to occupational risk prevention. While manufacturers and standardization bodies are wondering about the safety requirements applicable when designing or assessing such equipment, the user companies wonder about the performance and the limits of such equipment and the risks associated with its use. This article first gives a definition for SPPS in order to clarify the exchanges between the stakeholders. It then proposes a four-stage approach to deal with the concepts of systems and intelligence applied to personal protective equipment. For the ‘smart’ parts, it is proposed, by analogy with the field of ‘machinery’, to define a safety level for the ‘smart’ parts which participate in the individual protection functions. In order to show its applicability, this approach is then applied to four examples of SPPS.

摘要

“智能”或“智能”个人防护系统 (SPPS) 的出现引发了有关职业风险预防的新问题。虽然制造商和标准化机构想知道在设计或评估此类设备时适用的安全要求，但用户公司想知道此类设备的性能和限制以及与其使用相关的风险。为了明确利益相关者之间的交流，本文首先给出了SPPS的定义。然后，它提出了一个四阶段的方法来处理应用于个人防护设备的系统和智能概念。对于“智能”部件，建议与“机械”领域类比，为参与单独保护功能的“智能”部件定义安全等级。