Increasing the efficiency of machinery and plant through mechatronic optimization, integrated safety concepts and uniform software tools is the focus of the presentation of Siemens Drive Technologies at the trade fair for the converting industry, http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/maschinenbau/automation_solutions_converting_industry_increase_142664.html 2009, in Munich.

HIMA will host a TÜV functional safety course in Brisbane from 8–11 December 2009, which will cover industrial safety standards AS 61508 and AS 61511.

The TÜV Functional Safety Program offers engineers or persons, who have been working in the field of functional safety for many years, the possiblity to achieve a formal proof of their competencies and knowledge.

The document Functional safety and IEC 61508 provides an introduction to functional safety and gives an overview of IEC 61508.

Ubisense Introduce Australian First: Tracking the precise real-time location of your most valuable assets – applications in Materials Handling and safety - at The Safety and Material Handling Show in Sydney Oct 27-29”

Simeio™ the ground-breaking site personnel management tool, that will revolutionise the construction industry, today announces the launch of the first truly mobile site personnel management system designed to manage on-site attendance and Health and Safety information, in real-time.