Nick Hall joined the HSE in 2015 as a Specialist Inspector he has investigated many serious and fatal incidents on machinery and represents HSE on British and international standards for topics such as machinery safety, cyber security and robotics.
Nick is a chartered electrical and control systems engineer, he spent 22 years in industry designing and commissioning machinery and process control systems in projects all over the world and his current focus is on advanced automation, looking into guidance on autonomous equipment and how AI could be integrated with safety.
Nick will give attendees a look at how machinery safety is changing going over the most common safety issues in factory automation and look at how safety is changing from separation via guarding, to more collaborative applications and the associated emerging risks from Cobots, Autonomous Mobile Robots and AI.
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