Mechanical Hazards
Any machine part, function, or process that may cause injury must be __________.
What is safeguarded?
This requirement seek to prevent worker’s body or clothing from ________ hazardous moving parts.
What is preventing contact?
This kind of guard is permanently placed on machinery and can not be moved.
What is fixed?
_____________ shall be affixed to the machine where possible and secured elsewhere if for any reason attachment to the machine is not possible.
What are guards?
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?
This safeguard requirement seeks to firmly ________ safeguards to machines and not be easily removed.
What is secure?
When this type of guard is opened or removed, the tripping mechanism and/or power automatically shuts off or disengages, and the machine cannot cycle or be started until the guard is back in place.
What is an interlocked guard?
Machines designed for a fixed location shall be securely __________ to prevent walking or moving.
What is anchored?
These are frequent sites of injuries from machinery.
What are in-running nip points?
This safeguard requirement seeks ensure that no objects can fall into moving parts.
What is protect from falling objects?
This guard provides a barrier which may be adjusted to facilitate a variety of production operations.
What is an adjustable guard?
Work rests on offhand grinding machines must be kept adjusted closely to the wheel with a maximum opening of _________ to prevent the work from being jammed between the wheel and the rest, which may result in wheel breakage.
What is an 1/8-inch?
____________ exist where material enters a gradually narrowing opening, for example, pulling rolls, and the material is strong enough to pull body parts, such as fingers, hands, arms, and hair, into the pinch point.
What are nip points?
This safeguard requirement states that machinery must not have shear points, jagged edges or unfinished surfaces that could a ___________.
What are hazards?
This guard provides a barrier which moves according to the size of the stock entering the danger area.
What is a self-adjusting guard?
The distance between the wheel periphery and the adjustable tongue must never exceed _________.
What is 1/4-inch?
The point where work is performed on the material, such as cutting, shaping, boring, or forming of stock, it must be guarded.
What is the point of operation?
This safeguard requirement ensures that workers are able to perform their jobs quickly and comfortably, creating no _________.
What is interference?
This device is primarily used on machines with stroking action.
What are pullback devices?
Power-transmission apparatus (shafting, flywheels, pulleys, belts, chain drives, etc.) less than ______ from the floor or working platform must be guarded.
What is 7 feet?