Concepts and Techniques of Machine Safeguarding
Abstract
This manual has been prepared as an aid to employers, employees, machine manufacturers, machine guard designers and fabricators, and all others with an interest in protecting workers against the hazards of moving machine parts. It identifies the major mechanical motions and the general principles of safeguarding them. Current applications of each technique area shown in accompanying illustrations of specific operations and machines. The methods described here may be transferred, with due care, to different machines with similar hazards. To determine whether or not safeguarding meets the requirements of the standard, any mechanical motion that threatens a worker's safety should not remain unguarded. The approaches to machine safeguarding discussed in this manual are not the only solutions which meet the requirements of the standard. Why? Because practical solutions to safeguarding moving machine parts are as numerous as the people working on them. No publication could keep pace with all of these solutions or attempt to depicit them all.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA400219
Entities
Organizations
- United States Department of Labor