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What's New With designsafe® 6
Welcome to designsafe® 6! Here’s what’s new…
designsafe® 6 is and has…
1. More Intuitive
2. More Features
3. More Resources
4. More from less (less is more)
5. More Convenience
6. More Visual
7. More Specifics
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1. More Intuitive
You can view the Risk Scoring System – help your team calibrate faster and move through the assessment
More drop down menus – speed the assessment
Flow chart frames the big picture – help your team understand the process and where they are within it to keep on track and keep moving
Dynamic checklists – new, better and more intuitive terminology to describe the lists of users, tasks and hazards within the software. Also, dictionaries now refer to the new Spell check feature.
Note! For those that modified your checklists, see below how to Import your checklists into designsafe® 6.
2. More Features
Spell check is here! – no need to worry about typing errors. Run spell check at the end of your assessment and fix what needs fixing.
More reports – get the information you need in the format you desire.
Compare versions – compare an old and newer assessment files to highlight the differences between them.
Better date handling – faster, easier, more intuitive.
New Control System Assessment – a new feature to assist with developing specifications for control systems (more details below).
3. More Resources
Shortcuts – designsafe® 6 has many shortcuts to speed your assessment. Within the Resources menu you’ll find a Shortcuts document that shares these tips.
Guidance – when the going gets tough we can all use some guidance. This document draws on the lessons we’ve learned over the years and helps your team stay on track and out of the weeds.
Standards – one of the most exciting enhancements to designsafe® 6! The robot standard (R15.06) and the packaging machinery standard (B155.1) are of course included, but we now offer an optional machinery safety standards suite that includes the following documents:
• ANSI B11.0 Safety of Machinery (2010) – New!
• ANSI B11.19 Performance Criteria for Safeguarding (2010) – New!
• ANSI B11.TR1 Ergonomic Guidelines for the Design, Installation and Use of Machine Tools (2004)
• ANSI B11.TR6 Safety Control Systems for Machine Tools (2010) – New!
• ANSI B11.TR7 Design for Safety and Lean Manufacturing (2007)
EU Directives – included in the Resources menu for those unfamiliar with the requirements for products for the European market, and a convenient location for those that are
Declarations – template forms are included for the Declaration of Conformity and Declaration of Incorporation necessary for shipping equipment to the EU market
Customized Resources - designsafe® 6 enables you to customize your Resources menu for easy access to the documents and tools you desire. Add/delete headings and documents to create your own design library!
4. More from less (sometimes less is more)
Dynamic Checklists – we’ve culled through the lists of users, tasks and hazards and removed many items that offered little value
Drop down menus – less moving about the screen and more doing
Accelerators – built in and configurable accelerators help speed the assessment requiring fewer key and mouse strokes
New Set up Wizard – the more intuitive and now guided Set Up process helps you to install only what you need and not what you don’t
5. More Convenience
Uninstall not required – no need to uninstall prior versions of designsafe®. This allows you to get up and running quickly and convert to the new version at your convenience.
Filters – handle hazards and tasks for different users consistently and quickly in the assessment with filters. Jumps you into overdrive speed!
Copy/Paste entire rows – used with the filters the new copy / paste features remarkably speed the assessment
Sorting – work with the files in ways that make sense to you
Faster Navigation – navigate within the assessment faster and with more precision with the “Locate in…” feature.
Easier product licensing – the licensing process is now as easy as sending a simple email. Gone is the network license which tethered you to your network and was subject to inadvertent changes by IT or others that disabled the software. Now arrives multi-user licenses that enable more users to work with designsafe® and cuts the tether allowing you to work on the road or away from the network.
6. More Visual
Better use of color – applying the concepts of Lean Manufacturing and visual thinking designsafe® 6 now uses color to enhance and better communicate elements of the assessment.
Highlighting location – highlighting has been added to help the team know where in the assessment it is working.
Customizable – adjust the colors to your liking or to suit existing color systems in your organization.
7. More Specifics
Introducing our new Control System Assessment…
designsafe® 6 introduces a new Control System Assessment feature to assist with developing specifications for control systems.
Clicking on the 
icon will bring up the following dialog:
In the upper right corner of this dialog you can select one of three different methods to use for the control system including:
• ISO 13849-1 / EN 954-1 (1999) - categories
• ISO 13849-1 (2006) – performance levels
• ANSI/RIA R15.06 (R2009) - circuit performance
In this dialog you can type in the User, Task, and Hazard information that will be used to determine the control system requirements. You can also populate this dialog from the Identify Hazards or Assess and Reduce Risk tabs by “right clicking” and selecting “Use selected item for Control System Assessment.”
Based on the ratings for the risk factors severity, exposure and avoidance in the dialog, the required control system Category or Performance Level will be shown. A separate Control System Assessment can be developed for each machine or sub-process in a Process Analysis (Product Analyses have only one).
A special Control System Report provides the output of the assessment.
Why handle this separately?
Our experiences in the field and customer feedback have suggested the best way to handle requirements for the control system is separate from the rest of the risk assessment. Categories and performance levels make no sense when applied to non-control related hazards – like slips, high temperatures, ergonomics, etc. Also, handling the control system assessment separately from the rest of the risk assessment allows the electrical engineers or system designers to obtain the information they need to design the control system(s) without having to get bogged down with information that is less pertinent to their work.
Not everything is new in designsafe® 6. We still offer training, technical support, and a relentless focus on making the risk assessment process easy to use, easy to learn, and as fast as practicable.