Protect your team with Machine Guarding: Safe Work Practices training focused on Machines or power tools can be a hazard.
Machine Guarding: Safe Work Practices prepares employees to recognize relevant risks, responsibilities, and safe work expectations. Key outcomes include the ability to spot machine hazards, describe correct PPE use in machine operation, and explain machine maintenance and repair. The material also helps learners show safe work practices for machine operation. Practical examples connect the subject to routine tasks, expected procedures, and decisions employees may need to make on the job. Learners finish with a clearer understanding of what to look for, how to respond, and when to raise a concern or seek additional guidance.
Machine guarding training is for machine operators, maintenance and repair technicians, setup staff and supervisors in manufacturing, fabrication and other settings with powered equipment. Anyone using electric, pneumatic or hydraulic power tools benefits too. The 20-minute video is in English, with Spanish, French, Korean and Vietnamese closed captions.
Machine guarding in general industry is covered by OSHA 29 CFR 1910.212. That section requires guards against point-of-operation, rotating part, nip point and flying chip hazards. Other sections of 1910 Subpart O address specific machines. Guarding of portable powered tools falls under 29 CFR 1910.243.
The main types of machine guards are fixed guards, interlocked guards that shut the machine off when opened, adjustable guards and self-adjusting guards. Safeguarding devices such as presence-sensing devices and two-hand controls add protection. Engineering safeguards come first, with work rules and PPE as backup layers.
Avoid loose clothing, dangling jewelry, neck lanyards and untied long hair when working near machinery. Rotating parts can catch these items and pull a worker in. Footwear that creates a trip hazard is also a problem. Close-fitting clothing and task-appropriate PPE such as eye protection reduce the risk.
A machine guard may be removed for maintenance or repair only after the machine is shut down and locked out. Guards must be reinstalled and checked before the machine returns to service. Running a machine with a missing or bypassed guard exposes workers to amputation and crushing injuries.
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