Machine Guard Safety – Safety Requirements for Safeguards Machine guard safety is essential for preventing employees from contacting hazardous moving parts that can cause lacerations, crushing injuries, amputations, or death. Machinery...
Shop Hazards - Preventing Typical Shop Incidents Shop hazards can lead to serious injuries when employees take shortcuts, bypass safeguards, misuse equipment, or fail to recognize unsafe conditions. Preventing shop incidents...
Shop Safety Checklist Shop safety begins with maintaining a clean, organized workplace, keeping equipment in safe operating condition, and ensuring that only trained and authorized employees use shop machinery. A routine...
Power Press Safety – The Mighty Power Press Power press safety is critical because mechanical power presses are powerful metalworking machines used for punching, blanking, forming, and stamping operations. A press...
Machine Guard Safety Machine guard safety protects workers from moving parts, points of operation, and other machine hazards that can cause crushing, cutting, entanglement, amputation, or other serious injuries. If any...
Die Setting Safety Die setters set up, adjust, maintain, and operate presses and other machinery used to form, stamp, punch, or cut metal, plastic, and other materials. These operations can expose...
Hand Protection Your hands are essential to nearly every task you perform. Because they are frequently close to tools, equipment, materials, and moving objects, they are also highly vulnerable to injury....
Basic Machine Safety Machines make work faster and more efficient, but their power can also cause serious cuts, crushing injuries, amputations, entanglement, and even death. Employees who operate or work around...
Shop Safety - Safe Work Practices Shop safety requires employees to recognize and control hazards associated with machinery, tools, material handling, electrical equipment, vehicle movement, housekeeping, and other shop activities. Regular...
Lockout/Blockout Safety Lockout/blockout safety protects workers from the unexpected startup, movement, or release of hazardous energy from machinery and equipment during cleaning, servicing, adjustment, maintenance, or repair. Before beginning work, identify...