Webinar: Emergency Stops, Common Install and Design Errors
12pm – 1pm Thursday Feb 26, 2026 (NZDT) · ONLINE · FREE
Join TEG Risk Director Hamish Baker and Senior Safety Engineer Warren Wagener in this Safety Nerd webinar, as they explore common design and installation mistakes in emergency stop systems.
Drawing on real-world experience and expert knowledge, they’ll break down how to meet compliance with AS/NZS 4024.1604 and AS/NZS 4024.1503, what often goes wrong in the field, and the practical steps every organisation can take to improve machine safety—from design to verification.
Equip your organisation with real-world insights into emergency stop systems — and avoid the costly mistakes we see time and time again.
In this 60 minute expert-led webinar, TEG Risk Director Hamish Baker and Senior Safety Engineer Warren Wagener will unpack the most common design and installation errors in emergency stop systems — and show you how to avoid them.
With a clear focus on AS/NZS 4024.1604 and AS/NZS 4024.1503 compliance, they’ll walk through the underlying principles, safety architecture, and practical design approaches that every safety, engineering, and automation team should understand. Expect real-world examples, field-tested strategies, and actionable advice you can use immediately to improve safety outcomes on machinery and plant.
This session is designed for engineers, safety professionals, maintenance teams, and project leads who want clarity, not complexity.
Through this practical session, you’ll learn how compliant emergency stop systems, smart design choices, and proven safety architectures reduce risk and improve performance.
Event Details:
Date: 26 February 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM (NZT)
Location: Online Webinar
Format: Live Webinar
Cost: Free
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What You’ll Learn:
Emergency Stops in Context
Understand where emergency stop requirements fit within the broader machinery safety standards — including the hierarchy of A, B, and C-type standards, and how machine-specific requirements may override general rules.
Compliant Emergency Stop Design
Explore the key design principles that define compliant E-stop systems — from actuator visibility and reset rules to when an E-stop is not actually required.
Common Field Mistakes
Gain insight into the most frequent design and installation issues uncovered during inspections and incident reviews — and how to correct or avoid them from the outset.
Hardware, Architecture & Performance
Learn how component selection, system architecture, and performance level requirements interact — and why Category 3 is typically the benchmark for E-stop systems.
Stop Categories & Control Logic
Clarify the differences between stop categories 0, 1, and 2, and how these influence electrical design and risk-based decision making in advanced systems.
Takeaways You Can Apply
Walk away with practical steps to assess, verify, and upgrade your emergency stop systems — whether you're designing new machinery or improving existing setups.
About TEG Risk
Getting machine safety right the first time saves your organisation time, money, and risk
We help you identify and control machine safety risks before they become costly incidents. We’ll then provide your business with a robust plan to mitigate your risks to meet your health and safety requirements.
Our team works throughout Australasia, across large multi-site organisations with international clients. We provide safety engineering services for physical and mechanical disciplines and also those related to hazardous substances and hazardous area classifications.
We recently partnered with CHEP, a global leader in pallet and container pooling. While CHEP had conducted internal assessments, they required an independent review to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements such as the AS/NZS 4024 series. Our team identified and addressed machine safety hazards, developed standard solutions to key risks, and applied these consistently across multiple sites to achieve compliance and improve safety outcomes.
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