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Shared responsibility
Safety is not a department. Every engineer, panel builder, and field technician at Pendant owns it, from the shop floor to the customer's site.
Pendant Automation
Safety
How we keep our people and yours safe on site, and how we build safety into the control systems we deliver.
Our commitment
What safety means to Pendant.
We are an industrial control systems integrator. Our work puts people next to energized equipment, moving conveyor, and machinery that does not stop on its own. That reality is why safety comes before schedule, before budget, and before anything else on the job.
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Prevention first
We plan the hazard out before the work starts. Job hazard analyses, energy control plans, and the right PPE are part of the scope, not an afterthought.
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Stop-work authority
Anyone on a Pendant crew can stop a task they believe is unsafe. No approval needed, no consequences, no exceptions.
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Continuous training
Standards change and so do our people. Regular training keeps every team member current on electrical safety, lockout/tagout, and the site-specific rules where they work.
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Open communication
Near misses get reported, discussed, and fixed. We would rather hear about a close call ten times than an injury once.
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Protecting our future
Our people have families waiting for them. Every decision we make on site is measured against that. Nobody gets hurt building or running what we deliver.
On site
How we work safely in your facility.
Your rules, our standards, whichever is stricter.
Installation, startup, and commissioning happen inside live, working facilities. Distribution centers, parcel hubs, manufacturing lines, and process plants each have their own hazards and their own contractor requirements. Our crews arrive prepared for both.
Lockout / tagout
Hazardous energy control on every piece of equipment we touch. Written procedures, verified zero-energy state, and one lock per person, every time.
Electrical safety & arc flash
Work on energized equipment follows NFPA 70E. Arc-flash boundaries, incident energy analysis, and category-rated PPE are standard practice, not a special request.
Site-specific safety plans
Before mobilizing, we build a safety plan around your facility: your hazards, your emergency procedures, your contractor rules. Our crew is briefed before they walk in.
Daily briefings
Every shift on site starts with a toolbox talk. What is the work today, what can hurt us, and what are we doing about it.
Working around live systems
Conveyor, sortation, and material handling equipment keep running around us. We coordinate with your operations team so nobody is surprised by a start-up or a moving line.
Incident reporting
Every incident and near miss is documented, investigated, and reviewed. What we learn goes back into training and procedures across the whole company.
Safety by design
Engineered into every system we build.
The safest guard is the one designed in from day one.
Our responsibility does not end when our crew leaves your site. The control systems we deliver protect your operators every shift for years. That is why functional safety is part of our engineering process from the first risk assessment through final validation.
We design safety systems with the same care as the rest of the control system, and we document them so your maintenance team can keep them working as intended.
What that looks like in practice
- Risk assessments and hazard identification at the design stage
- Safety-rated controllers, I/O, and networks (GuardLogix, Siemens F-CPU, CIP Safety, PROFIsafe)
- Emergency stop circuits, guard interlocks, light curtains, and safety-rated drives
- Performance Level and SIL calculations to ISO 13849-1 and IEC 62061
- Machine safeguarding per ANSI B11 and OSHA 29 CFR 1910 requirements
- UL 508A listed industrial control panels, built and inspected in-house
- Arc-flash labeling and short-circuit current ratings on every panel we ship
- Documented safety functions, validation testing, and commissioning sign-off
Learn more about our control system design and panel fabrication services.
Compliance
Prequalification and documentation.
Find Pendant on Avetta and ISNetworld, learn about our CMMC Level 2 cybersecurity certification, and request the documentation your vendor onboarding requires.
Questions about our safety program?
Talk to us. We are happy to walk through our practices, our records, and how we will work inside your facility.
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