Machine Guarding 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.

Machine guarding is a popular training topic for many industrial workers.   Moving machine parts, when unguarded, have the potential to cause severe workplace injuries, such as crushed fingers or hands, amputations, burns, or blindness. Many gruesome injuries result from employees' lack of attention to placement and use of machine guards.

OSHA takes machine guarding seriously: they have a regulation (1910.211 -1910.219) that requires training and more to protect against injury from equipment with moving parts.

Protect your workers from these preventable injuries with any of our ten plus machine guarding safety videos that train your employees to respect the dangers of unguarded machine parts.   Here are our bestselling machine guarding videos.   Many of the topics covered include:

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

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You can also download this free Machine Guarding course outline to help you start your Machine Guarding training program.

Machine Guarding Sample Course Outline