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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...