Machine Guard Safety
Course Length: 30 - 45 minutes
High-impact training
covering the essentials of machine guard safety.
Machinery comes in many sizes and shapes, and it can present
many different types of hazards. Each year thousands of employees across the
country are injured by the machines they are most familiar with... and which
they believe are safe. The risk of accidents from powered machinery is so great
OSHA estimates that lack of machine guarding is the second most frequent safety
violation in industry today. Machine
Guard Safety is designed to help employees understand the dangers of working
with machinery - and how those risks can be minimized by proper installation
and use of safety guards and devices.
This training covers the following topics:
- Basic
machine operations
- Fixed
guards
- Adjustable
and self-adjusting guards
- Interlock
devices
- Drive
train and perimeter guards
- "Drop
probe" devices
- Restrain
and pullback devices
- Adjustment,
inspection and maintenance of safety guards
- And
more!
Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video,
text, and colorful graphics, Machine
Guard Safety provides cost-effective, easy-to-use training. It's divided
into topic-based lessons so information is easily understood ... and retained.