Membership

ANSI Standards Committee Memberships (1995–Present)

White Horse Safety is actively involved in various ANSI committees that develop and update crucial safety standards. These committees focus on a wide range of safety-related areas, including machinery safety, risk assessment, and performance criteria for safeguarding. Key committees include:

- ANSI/ASSP Z244.1 Lockout, Tagout and Alternative Methods (Vice Chair)
- B11.0 Safety of Machinery
- B11.1 Safety Requirements for Mechanical Power Presses (Chair)
- B11.2 Safety Requirements for Hydraulic and Pneumatic Power Presses
- B11.3 Safety Requirements for Power Press Brakes
- B11.4 Safety Requirements for Shears (Chair)
- B11.5 Safety Requirements for Iron Workers (Chair)
- B11.12 Safety Requirements for Roll Forming & Roll Bending Machines (Chair)
- B11.16 Safety Requirements for Powder/Metal Compacting Presses
- B11.17 Safety Requirements for Horizontal Hydraulic Extrusion Presses
- B11.18 Safety Requirements for Machines Processing or Slitting Coiled or Non-Coiled Metal (Chair)
- B11.19 Performance Requirements for Risk Reduction Measures: Safeguarding and other Means of Reducing Risk
- B11.20 Safety Requirements for Integrated Manufacturing Systems
- B11.25 Safety Requirements for Large Machines
- B11.26 Functional Safety General Principles for Designing Safety-Related Parts of Safety Control Systems for
Machinery
- B11.27 Safety Requirements for Electrical Discharge Machines
- B11.TR3 Technical Report Machinery Risk Assessment
- B11.TR4 Technical Report Programmable Electronic Systems
- B11.TR6 Technical Report Design of Safety Systems
- B11.TR8 Guide to Sustainable Safety Systems Through Inspection of Risk Reduction Measures
- B151.1 Safety Requirements for Injection Molding Machines (ANSI/ Plastics)
- B151.2 Safety Requirements for Film Casting Machinery. (ANSI/ Plastics)
- B151.5 Safety Requirements for Plastic Film and Sheet Winding and Unwinding Machinery. (ANSI/ Plastics)
- B151.7 Safety Requirements for Extrusion Machines (ANSI/ Plastics) (Chair)
- B151.27 Safety Requirements for Robot/Injection Molding Machine Systems (ANSI/Plastics) (Chair)
- B151.29 Safety Requirements for Vertical Clamp Injection Molding (ANSI/Plastics)
- ANSI RIA 15.06/ ISO 10218 Robot Safety Standard
- ANSI RIA 15.08 Industrial Mobile Robots – Safety Requirements
– Part 1: Requirements for the Industrial Mobile Robot
- B155.1 Safety Requirements for Packaging and Processing Machinery
- B11 SDC (B11.org Safety Standard Development Committee)
- Plastics Industry Association Machinery Safety Technical Committee
- Active participation on additional B151 machine safety committees

Additional B11 Series participation as part of the B11 Standards Development Committee.

- B11.6 Safety Requirements for Manual Turning Machines
- B11.7 Safety Requirements for Cold Headers and Cold Formers
- B11.8 Safety Requirements for Manual Milling, Drilling, and Boring Machines
- B11.9 Safety Requirements for Grinding Machines
- B11.10 Safety Requirements for Metal Sawing Machines
- B11.11 Safety Requirements for Gear & Spline Cutting Machines
- B11.13 Safety Requirements for Single or Multiple Spindle Automatic Bar and Chucking Machines
- B11.15 Safety Requirements for Pipe, Tube and Shape Bending Machines
- B11.21 Safety Requirements for Machine Tools Using a Laser for Processing Materials
- B11.22 Safety Requirements for Numerically Controlled Turning Machines
- B11.23 Safety Requirements for Machining Centers
- B11.24 Safety Requirements for Transfer Machines
- Additional B11 Technical Reports

International ISO Committee Participation (2011–Present)

White Horse Safety also participates in several ISO committees that focus on the development of international standards for machinery safety and risk management. These committees help shape global safety regulations, ensuring consistency and compliance across borders. Notable committees include:

- ISO/TC 39/SC 10/WG 1 Metalforming Machinery Safety Requirements
ISO 16092 Machine Tools Safety - Presses – Parts 1 through 5
Working Group for Press Brakes
- ISO/TC 270/WG 1 Plastic and Rubber Machines Safety Requirements
ISO 20430:2020 Plastics and rubber machines — Injection moulding machines —
- ISO/TC 270/WG 2 Extrusion Machines
- ISO/TC 270/WG 3 Clamping Systems for Plastic and Rubber Machines
- ISO/TC 199/WG 3 Safety for Integrated Mfg. Systems
- ISO/TC 199/WG 5 Safety of Machinery, Risk Assessment
- ISO/TC 199/WG 8 Safety of Machinery, Safety Related Parts of the Control Systems
ISO 13849-1 Safety of Machinery, General Principals of Design
ISO 13849-2 Safety of Machinery, Validation
- ANSI/ISO 12100-1 Safety of Machinery, Basic Terminology
- ANSI/ISO 12100-2 Safety of Machinery, Technical Requirements
- ISO 13578:2017 Industrial furnaces and associated processing equipment — Safety requirements for machinery
and equipment for production of steel by electric arc furnaces
- Additional ISO participation and review as part of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

WHS Active Integration and Working Knowledge of the Following Additional Safety Publications

All additional ANSI B11 B & C Level Safety Standards
- NFPA 79, NFPA70E, NFPA 70 (NEC), NFPA 77, NFPA 85, NFPA 86
- OSHA 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy
- OSHA 1910 Subpart O - Machinery and Machine Guarding
OSHA 1910.212 General Requirements for All Machines
OSHA 1910.217 Mechanical Power Presses
OSHA 1910.218 Forging Machines
- OSHA 1910 Subpart S – Electrical
- Additional OSHA safety requirements and Standards
- ANSI B56.5 Safety Standard for Driverless, Automatic Guided Industrial Vehicles and Automated
- EN 13675 Safety of Machinery, Safety Requirements for Tube Forming and Rolling Mills and Their Finishing Line
Equipment
- EN 16474:2015 Plastics and rubber machines. Tyre curing machines. Safety requirements
- ISO 14121 Safety of Machinery, Risk Assessment
- ISO/TS 15066 – Robots and Robotic Devices – Collaborative Robots
- EN16474-2015 Plastics and rubber machines. Tire curing machines. Safety requirements
- EN 13675 Safety of Machinery, Safety Requirements for Tube Forming and Rolling Mills and Their
Finishing Line Equipment
- EN692 Machine Tool Safety Mechanical Power Presses
- EN 693 Machine Tool Safety Hydraulic Presses
- CSA Z142 Code for Power Press Operation
- CSA Z432 Safeguarding of machinery
- CSA Z434 Industrial Robots and Robot Systems
- CSA Z460 Control of Hazardous Energy – Lockout and Other Methods
- Work-Safe BC (British Columbia, various requirements from the Provincial Government)
- Numerous others