Mechanical Hazards
Requirements for Safeguards
Guards and Devices
LOTO
100

Any machine part, function, or process that may cause injury must be __________.

What is safeguarded?

100

This requirement is the main point of machine guarding.

What is to prevent contact with moving parts of a machine?

100

This kind of guard is permanently placed on machinery and can not be moved. 

What is fixed?

100

Prepare for shutdown

What is the first step in Lock Out Tag Out?

200

Where the operation of a machine or accidental contact with it can injure the operator or others in the vicinity, the hazard must be either___________.

What is controlled or eliminated?

200

This safeguard requirement seeks to firmly ________ safeguards to machines and not be easily removed.

What is secure?

200

This type of guard has a tripping mechanism that causes the power automatically shut off or disengage, so the machine cannot cycle or be started until the guard is back in place.

What is an interlocked guard?

200

Authorized, Affected, Other Associates

Who needs to be trained on LOTO?

300

These are used at many processes to move product and can pull loose clothing, hair and body parts in.

What are conveyor belts?

300

This safeguard requirement seeks to ensure that no objects can fall into moving parts.

What is protect from falling objects?

300

This guard provides a barrier which may be adjusted to facilitate a variety of production operations.

What is an adjustable guard?

300

These are standardized in color, size, and shape for LOTO

What is the Lock Out Device (Lock & Tag)?

400

____________ can cause the machine to move even without any other energy source.

What is gravity? 

400

This guarding requirement states that the guard itself can not create a ____________ to the worker.

What is a hazard?

400

The machine stops when any part of your body breaks the beam of this guard

What is a Light Curtain/Area Sensor?

400

This Associate operates the machine that could be locked out.

Who is an Affected Associate?

500

The point where work is performed on the material, it must be guarded.

What is the point of operation?

500

This safeguard requirement states that a guard can not create ____________ with the normal job.

What is interference?


500

This device is primarily used on conveyors in case you can't make it to the e-stop.

What are safety cables?

500

The person who placed the lock and tag.

Who is the person who can remove the lock and tag?

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