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...
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...
Caught-In, Caught-Between, and Crush Hazards Caught-in, caught-between, and crush hazards occur when a worker or body part becomes trapped, squeezed, pinched, pulled into, or compressed between objects or moving equipment. These...
Machine Safety – Safe Machine Operation Machine safety requires proper training, functioning safeguards, safe work practices, and constant attention whenever employees operate or work around machinery. Moving machine parts can pinch,...
Guard Against Machine Injuries Machines make many jobs easier and more efficient, but moving equipment can cause severe injuries in an instant. Hands, fingers, clothing, hair, and other body parts can...