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, ...

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 ...

Typically, a machine guard barrier consists of safety trip controls, presence-sensing devices, and electromechanical sensing devices, which initiate a machine’s operating cycle only when it is safe to ...

The agency’s expanded guidance now governs inspections in animal processing facilities, aiming to address high injury rates, ...

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 ...