The General Requirements for Guarding of Machinery: Adelaide

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The General Requirements for Guarding of
Machinery Adelaide
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Multiple requirements for machine guarding are
provided to protect the operator and other
involved employees in the machine area from
hazards What are these general requirements?
Ideally, machine guards should be affixed to the
machine where possible and secured elsewhere if
for some reason connection or attachment to the
machine is not possible to prevent access to the
hazard from all accessible approaches including
front, back, bottom and top side. The most common
examples of guarding methods include two-hand
tripping devices or electronic safety devices,
and barrier guards. Machines should always be
operated with safety guards in place except when
a guard has to be detached following a documented
procedure, such as machine maintenance, that
ensures personnel protection. Such tasks may
cover those for repair or adjustment. Machine
guards should be reattached before the machine is
put back in use.
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Special hand feeding equipment for placing and
removing material should be such as to allow
optimal and safe handling of materials without
the operator placing a hand in the hazardous
zone. Such tools should not be used as a
substitute for other guarding required by this
policy, but should only be utilized to supplement
protection presented. Basic Areas Requiring
Guarding of Machinery Adelaide The hazardous
moving parts in three basic areas require
effective safeguarding Point of
Operation The area on a machine where major
work is actually performed on the raw material
being processed (e.g., shaping, cutting, forming
of stock, boring) Power Transmission
Mechanism Every internal component of the
mechanical system which produces and transmits
energy to the part of the machine performing the
work (e.g., pulleys, flywheels, belts, couplings,
connecting rods, spindles, cams, chains, gears,
and cranks) and
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Other moving components All
components of the machine which move while the
machine is in use including, but not limited to,
rotating, reciprocating, and transverse moving
parts, as well as feed mechanisms and auxiliary
parts of the machine. When blades are
exposed When the edges of the blades of a fan is
less than seven feet above the floor or working
level, the blades will need to be guarded, and
the guard should have openings no larger than
one-half inch in diameter. Anchoring Fixed or
Mounted Machinery All machineries made for a
fixed location should be securely anchored to
prevent rolling or moving of the machinery. To
ensure total effectiveness, anchoring should be
done during machine installations. Adelaide
machine engineering-experts stress the importance
of anchoring, since nonessential motion can be
dangerous, possibly gripping through clothing and
forcing unwanted skin contact.
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Hazardous Mechanical Motions and Actions Any
rotating motion can be very dangerous since it
can grip clothing, and through mere skin contact,
force an arm or hand into a dangerous quandary.
The danger doubles when projections such as set
screws, nicks, bolts, abrasions, and projecting
keys or set screws are exposed on rotating parts.
Parts can rotate in opposite directions while
their axes are parallel to each other, requiring
guarding of machinery. Adelaide requires machines
to be guarded when it comes to these
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