Machine Guarding
Machine Guarding
Machine Guarding
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Introduction
Possible machinery-related injuries include:
• Crushed fingers or hands
• Amputations
• Burns
• Blindness
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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
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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
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
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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
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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Rotating parts with hazardous projections
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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Common nip points on
rotating parts
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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Nip points between rotating elements and
parts with longitudinal motions
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Basic Machinery Parts and Hazards
• Nip points between rotating
machine components
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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
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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
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Machinery That Requires Guarding
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Machinery That Requires Guarding
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Machinery That Requires Guarding
Source: OSHA
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Machinery That Requires Guarding
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
methods:
• Automatic/
semi-automatic feed
Completed Work
• Automatic/
semi-automatic ejection
• Robots
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Additional Safeguarding
Miscellaneous aids:
• Awareness barriers
• Protective shields
• Hand-feeding tools
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Identify the Hazard
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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
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Knowledge Check
Answer: a. motions
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Knowledge Check
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
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