Safety Flash
Machine guarding
Machine guarding
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 09/03
- Hand and Finger InjuriesMachinery and Equipment
- Crushing and pinch pointsEntanglementHand and finger injuries
- Rotating machinery
- Machine guarding
Summary
This safety flash presents machine safeguarding advice focused on amputation hazards. It explains risks from rotating, reciprocating and transverse movements, in-running nip points and cutting actions. Safeguarding requirements vary with machine characteristics and operator involvement, with hazardous parts and processes requiring protection.
Classifications: Crushing and pinch points; crush hazards; pinch points.
Classifications: Entanglement; caught in machinery; drawn into machinery.
Classifications: Hand and finger injuries; finger injury; hand injury.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Machine guarding; machinery guards; machine guards.
Summary
The guidance explains how machine motions and nip points can cause severe injuries and stresses the need for effective guarding.
IMCA SF 09/03. Themes: hand and finger injuries, machinery and equipment.