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Machine Guarding

OSHA 10-hour Outreach Training


General Industry

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Introduction
Possible machinery-related injuries include:
• Crushed fingers or hands
• Amputations
• Burns
• Blindness

A good rule to remember is:


Any machine part, function, or process which may
cause injury must be safeguarded.

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Introduction
Lesson objectives:
1. Identify the main causes of machinery accidents.
2. Recognize basic machinery parts that expose
workers to hazards.
3. Recognize workplace situations involving
machinery that requires guarding.
4. Identify the requirements for safeguards.
5. Identify types of machine guards including types
of devices used to safeguard machines.

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Machinery Accidents

Examples of how machine accidents


can occur:
• Reaching-in to “clear” equipment
• Not using Lockout/Tagout
• Unauthorized persons doing maintenance
or using the machines
• Missing or loose machine guards

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Machinery Accidents

Amputations:
• Unguarded/inadequately
safeguarded machinery
• Materials handling activities Source: OSHA

• Activities involving
stationary machines

Source: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards

Three fundamental machine areas:


• Point of operation
• Power transmission device
• Operating controls – mechanical or electric
power control

Source: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards

Point of operation:
• Where work is performed on material
• Examples
– Cutting
– Shaping
– Boring
– Forming

Source: OSHA DTE

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
Power transmission device:
• Parts that transmit energy to the part of the
machine performing work
• Examples
– Flywheels – Cams
– Pulleys – Spindles
– Belts – Chains
– Connecting rods – Cranks
– Couplings – Gears

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards

Hazardous motions and actions:


• Motions
– How the machine part moves
– Examples: rotating, in-running nip points,
reciprocating, and transversing
• Actions
– Operation that the machine part performs
– Examples: cutting, punching, shearing, bending

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Rotating parts with hazardous projections

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Common nip points on
rotating parts

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Nip points between rotating elements and
parts with longitudinal motions

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Nip points between rotating
machine components

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Reciprocating motions:
– Back-and-forth
– Up-and-down

Source: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Transverse motion – movement in straight,
continuous line

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Cutting action – may involve rotating,
reciprocating, or transverse motion

Source: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Punching action – power applied to a slide
(ram) for purpose of blanking, drawing, or
stamping metal or other materials

Source: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Shearing action – applying power to a
slide or knife in order to trim or shear metal
or other materials.

Source: OSHA

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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Bending action – applying power to draw
or stamp metal or other materials

Source: OSHA

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Machinery That Requires Guarding
Machines that require point of operation guarding:
• Guillotine cutters
• Shears
• Alligator shears
• Power presses
• Milling machines
• Power saws
• Jointers
• Portable power tools
• Forming rolls and calenders

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Machinery That Requires Guarding

• Exposure of fan blades:


– Guard when periphery of
blades is less than 7’ above
the floor or working level
– Guards with openings no
larger than ½”

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Machinery That Requires Guarding

• Abrasive wheel machinery:


– Adjustable tongue guard to
within ¼” of wheel
– Work rest with maximum
opening of 1/8”
– Cover spindle end, nut, flange
projections

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Machinery That Requires Guarding

Revolving barrels, containers, and drums:


• Guard by an enclosure which is interlocked
with drive mechanism
• Guards with openings no larger than ½”

Source: OSHA

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Machinery That Requires Guarding

Power-transmission Unguarded belt


and pulley
apparatus:
• Shafting, flywheels,
pulleys, belts, chain
drives, etc.
• Less than 7 feet from the
floor or working platform
must be guarded
Source: OSHA

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Machinery That Requires Guarding
Machinery associated with amputations – examples:
1. Mechanical power 7. Food slicers
presses 8. Meat grinders
2. Power press breaks 9. Meat-cutting
3. Powered and non- band saws
powered conveyors 10. Drill presses
4. Printing presses 11. Milling machines
5. Roll-forming and 12. Grinding machines
roll-bending 13. Slitters
machines
6. Shearing machines

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Requirements for Safeguards
Safeguards must meet these minimum
general requirements:
• Prevent contact
• Be secured
• Protect from falling objects
• Create no new hazards
• Create no interference
• Allow safe lubrication
Source: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards

Safeguarding machinery:
• Primary methods
– Guards
– Devices
• Ensure employee protection
– Properly designed, constructed, and installed
– Used and maintained in good operating
condition

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
• Secondary methods
– Probe detection and safety edge devices
– Awareness devices
– Safeguarding methods
• Safe distance
• Safe holding
• Safe opening
– Safe work practices
• Safe work procedures
• Complementary equipment

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Types of Machine Safe Guards

Guards:
• Preferable to other control methods
• Provide physical barrier that prevents
contact with dangerous machine parts
• Four general types
– Fixed
– Interlocked
– Adjustable
– Self-adjusting
Source: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Fixed guard:
• Provides a barrier
• Permanent part of the machine, preferable
to all other types of guards.

Source of photos: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Interlocked guards:
• Shuts off or disengages power, stops
moving parts, and prevents starting of
machine when guard is open
• May use electrical, mechanical, hydraulic,
or pneumatic power, or combination

Source: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Adjustable guards:
• Shuts off or disengages power
• Stops moving parts
• Prevents starting of machine when
guard is open

Source: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Self-adjusting guards:
• Openings of barriers determined by
movement of the stock
• Places barrier between danger area
and operator

Source: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Devices:
• Controls or attachments that prevent inadvertent
access by employees to hazardous machine areas
• Examples
– Presence sensing – Safety trip controls
• Photoelectric – Two-hand control
• Radiofrequency
– Two-hand trip
• Electromechanical
– Gate
– Pullback
– Restraint

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Presence-sensing devices:
• Photoelectric
• Radiofrequency
• Electromechanical

Source: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Pullback devices:
• Utilize a series of cables
attached to operator
• Automatically withdraws
hands from point of
operation when slide/ram
begins to descend

Source: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards

Source: OSHA Source: OSHA

• Hands in die, feeding • Die closed


• Point of operation exposed • Hands withdrawn from
point of operation by
• Pullback device attached and
pullback device
properly adjusted

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Restraint devices:
• Utilize cables/straps
attached to operator’s
hands and a fixed point
• No extending/retracting
action involved
• Hand-feeding tools may
be necessary

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Safety trip controls:
• Deactivates the machine
in an emergency situation
• Examples
– Pressure-sensitive bar
– Safety tripod
– Safety tripwire
• Positioning is critical;
must stop machine before
body reaches danger area
Source of graphics: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards

Two-hand controls:
• Deactivates the machine
in an emergency situation
• Pressure-sensitive
• Positioning is critical;
must stop machine before
body reaches danger area

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Gate devices:
• Moveable barrier that protects operator at
point of operation before machine cycle can
be started
• Must be interlocked so machine cannot begin
cycle unless gate guard is in place
• Must be closed before machine can function
• Types
– “A” Gate
– “B” Gate

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Types of Machine Safe Guards
Gate Open
Gate devices:
• Moveable barrier that protects
operator at point of operation
before machine cycle can be
started
• Must be interlocked so Gate Closed
machine cannot begin cycle
unless gate guard is in place
• Must be closed before
machine can function
Source of graphics: OSHA

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Types of Machine Safe Guards

Type “A” Gate Operation Type “B” Gate Operation

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Additional Safeguarding
Location/distance:
• The dangerous moving part of a machine
must be so positioned that those areas are
not accessible or do not present a hazard
• Feeding process safeguarded
by maintaining safe distance
to protect worker
• Operator’s controls located
safe distance from machine

Source: OSHA

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Additional Safeguarding
Transparent
Enclosure
Guard

Feeding and ejection Stock Feed


Roll

methods:
• Automatic/
semi-automatic feed
Completed Work
• Automatic/
semi-automatic ejection
• Robots

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Additional Safeguarding
Miscellaneous aids:
• Awareness barriers
• Protective shields
• Hand-feeding tools

Source of graphics: OSHA

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Identify the Hazard

Unguarded lower blade and


arbor end of radial saw.
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Identify the Hazard

Guard removed from chain rail exposing pins on


the spiked chain and sprocket mechanism.

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Summary
• Safeguards are essential for protecting
workers from needless and preventable
machinery-related injuries
• The point of operation, as well as all parts
of the machine that move while the
machine is working, must be safeguarded
• A good rule to remember is:
Any machine part, function, or
process which may cause injury
must be safeguarded

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Knowledge Check
1. All machines consist of three fundamental areas,
including __.
a. Flywheels, connecting rods, and transverse moving
parts
b. Point of operation, power transmission device, and
operating controls
c. Reciprocating parts, rotating parts, and on/off switch
d. Feed mechanisms, auxiliary machine parts, and nip
points

Answer: b. point of operation, power transmission device,


and operating controls

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Knowledge Check

2. Rotating, in-running nip points,


reciprocating, and transversing are
types of hazardous ___.
a. motions
b. actions
c. guards
d. devices

Answer: a. motions

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Knowledge Check

3. Cutting, punching, shearing, and


bending are types of hazardous ___.
a. motions
b. actions
c. guards
d. devices

Answer: b. actions

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Knowledge Check
4. Which of the following explains how a guard
protects workers?
a. Stops the machine when a worker enters the
danger area
b. Restrains the worker from entering the danger
area
c. Creates distance to keep the worker from
entering the danger area
d. Provides a barrier to prevent access to the
danger area
Answer: d. Provides a barrier to prevent
access to the danger area
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Knowledge Check

5. Which of the following is an example of


a safeguarding device?
a. Protective shield
b. Hand-feeding tool
c. Safety trip control
d. Awareness barrier

Answer: c. Safety trip control

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