Due to this fact, OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) has established a set of standards around machine guarding. The purpose of machine guarding is to protect the machine operator and ...

Course topics include types of machinery requiring guarding, point of operation, emergency eyewash/shower requirements, hazard communication, OSHA Machinery and Machine Guarding Standards violations, ...

Machine guard barriers help guide operators in the safe use of all kinds of industrial equipment. Typically, a machine guard barrier consists of safety trip controls, presence-sensing devices, and ...

As in previous years, Machine Guarding rounds out the OSHA top 10, though the number of cited violations dropped from 1,644 in FY23 to 1,541 cited during FY24. The OSHA standard 1910.212 outlines ...

He has written many whitepapers related to safety standards and general machine guarding, conducted risk assessments and validations, and developed and reviewed the implementation of corporate ...

OSHA’s guidance emphasizes safety inspections around key risk areas, such as sanitation procedures, ergonomic practices, energy control and machine guarding. OSHA believes these new measures ...

and machine guarding. “This expansion into the broader Animal Slaughtering and Processing industry (NAICS 3116) is based on OSHA’s determination that this industry has a high Bureau of Labor ...