The Axelent Safety Group is headed by Mikael Ström and its members are Sven Toftgård, Axelent AB, Marc Van den Ende, Axelent Benelux, Eric Plana, Axelent Spain, and the external machine safety guru Matthias Schulz.

Why was the Axelent Safety Group founded?

Ever since its humble beginnings almost thirty years ago, Axelent has remained to the fore in safety issues. Axelent’s entire business concept is based on protecting people in industrial environments and Axelent is, for instance, a member of the Committee on Machine Safety (SiS). SiS pursues Sweden’s standardisation efforts on behalf of the Swedish government. These standardisations are most often international and in compliance with the Vienna Agreement*.

“The reinstatement of the Axelent Safety Group was a natural step for us to take,” says Mikael Ström, the group’s founder and Product Manager at Axelent AB’s head office.

What exactly is the group tasked with?

The group’s primary role is to ensure that Axelent has a high level of expertise in machine safety issues. Such knowledge benefits our group and is shared through information and training initiatives. Our assignments vary in scope. They can entail, for example, updating Axelent’s unique Safety Book, responsibility for machine safety texts on our websites or ensuring a general consensus within the group regarding machine safety issues. We also work actively with machine safety training.