General Safety & Health Series

Machine Guard Safety

Machinery comes in many sizes and shapes, and it can present many different types of hazards. Each year thousands of employees across the country are injured by the machines they are most familiar with... and which they believe are safe. The risk of accidents from powered machinery is so great OSHA estimates that lack of machine guarding is the second most frequent safety violation in industry today.

TPC Training Systems' training products on "Machine Guard Safety" are designed to help employees understand the dangers of working with machinery... and how those risks can be minimized by proper installation and use of safety guards and devices. Topics covered in these products include:

• Basic machine operations.
• Fixed guards.
• Adjustable and self-adjusting guards.
• Interlock devices.
• Drive train and perimeter guards.
• "Drop probe" devices.
• Restrain and pullback devices.
• Adjustment, inspection and maintenance of safety guards. and more.