Machine Guarding

Duration: 20 Minutes      Language: English

Topics Covered:

• Recognize the hazards of working with mechanical equipment including where those hazards occur and the motions and actions that cause the hazards.
• Identify the purpose of machine safeguarding, safeguarding device requirements, factors that influence safeguarding methods and the safeguarding methods used to protect you from mechanical hazards.
• Recognize your responsibilities to utilize machine safeguards properly.

Course Benefits:

• Certificate of Completion. *Valid for 1 year.
• Examination record available for employer.

Regulations: 

• OSHA Manual 3067 - Revised 1992 - Concepts and Techniques of Machine Safeguarding.
• OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119 - Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals.
• OSHA Act Section (5)(a) General Duty clause.
• 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy "Lockout / Tagout."
• 1910 Subpart O - Machinery and Machine Guarding.
• 1910.211 - Definitions.
• 1910.212 - General requirements for all machines.
• 1910.213 - Woodworking machinery requirements.
• 1910.214 - Cooperage machinery (Reserved).
• 1910.215 - Abrasive wheel machinery.
• 1910.216 - Mills and calendars in the rubber and plastics industries.
• 1910.217 - Mechanical Power Presses (Plus Appendices A,B,C, and D): 1910.217 (e) (2) and (f)(2)  Operator Training; 1910.217 (H) (I) A through and (ii) Operator Training; 1910.217 (e) (3) Maintenance Personnel Training.
• 1910.218 (a) (2) (iii) Forging Machines- Inspection and Maintenance Training.
• 1910.219 Mechanical Power Transmission Devices.
• 1910.263 Bakery Equipment.
• 1910.268 Telecommunications.
• 1910.252 (2)(xiii) Welding Cutting and Brazing - General.
• 1910.254 (a)(3) Arc Welding and Cutting.
• 1910.255 (a)(3) Resistance Welding.
• 1910.261 (h)(3)(ii) Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills.
• 1910.264 (d)(1)(v) Laundry Machinery.
• 1910.265 (c) (3)(x) Sawmills.
• 1910.268 (b)(2)(i) and (c)(1) thru (3) Telecommunications.
• Entire ANSI B Series (B11.1 through B24 and TR1 through TR6).
• OSHA Publication 3170-02 R Safeguarding Equipment and Protecting Workers from Amputations.
• OSHA Publication 2145 Machine Guarding.
• 1910 Subpart I Personal Protective Equipment.