| Helps safety engineers and managers in factories and other industrial-type worksites to incorporate an effective machine-guarding-safety program, meet OSHA requirements, and protect workers.
Throughout Machine Guarding Handbook, the authors explore and discuss the hazards of unguarded machines, common safeguarding methods, the safeguarding of machines and robots, the importance of guarding, the varying methods of machine guarding, training, inspection and maintenance, and safeguarding techniques. In addition, they provide both regulatory information and the material required to implement a viable machine-guarding program.
Special features include a sample lockout/tagout program; checklists; numerous tables, figures and illustrations; a machine-guarding case study; chapter summaries; terms and definitions; and four appendices, including the complete OSHA Machine Guarding and Lockout/Tagout Standards.
Chapters include Mechanical/Non-Mechanical Hazards of Unguarded Machines, Guards, Devices, Automatic and Semi-Automatic Feeding and Ejecting Methods, Location and Distance and Safeguarding Accessories, Robots in the Workplace, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding and Worker Training, and Machine Guarding and OSHA Compliance.
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