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Safety Guidelines for Management
Operational Safety
1. Appoint a Safety Coordinator to be responsible for
safety regulations, requirements, and suggestions.
They must review and investigate all accidents
and “close calls.”
2. Establish and issue safety rules. Inform each
employee of his responsibilities. Make sure he
understands them and knows what is expected
of him.
3. A thorough review and an early inspection must
be made of existing presses, dies, and point
of operation guarding to attain the degree of
responsibility required by Federal/State laws or
ANSI B11.1-1988 Safety Standards. Review what
mandatory modi
fi cations are necessary.
4. Equipment that is no longer safe and that cannot
be economically upgraded should be destroyed.
5. Never allow persons legally under age to operate
or assist in the operation of machinery.
6. All personnel MUST be properly trained to
eliminate accidents and injuries.
7. Regardless of the operator’s experience, education
or language barrier, it is the responsibility of the
supervisor to give him a thorough explanation with
each new job assignment.
8. No employee should be given a work assignment
that he does not fully understand. Only properly
instructed and thoroughly trained personnel should
be assigned to work on or with any machine.
9. It SHALL BE the responsibility of the employer to
provide an adequate, clean, safe, and uncluttered
work area around each machine.
10. If a malfunction is reported, stop the machine
immediately, correct the problem, then resume
production.
11. Investigate all accidents and close calls. Analyze
the reason for occurrence. Take action to prevent
recurrence. Keep records of the investigation and
preventative steps that were taken.
12. Only employees who understand the machines,
operation and safety requirements, and who are
able to communicate this knowledge should be
given the responsibility of instructing and training
others to perform as operators.
13. Management must decide that personnel
protective safety equipment is required to
perform each job safely. Items such as safety
glasses, shoes, gloves, helmets, hand pads,
spats, protective sleeves, and material handling
equipment are common in the metal working
industry. If noise levels are excessive, protective
headsets and earmuffs are recommended.
14. When designing point of operation guarding, the
manufacturing process should be weighed heavily
in favor of operational safety.
15. Establish safe and convenient material handling
methods and procedures.
16. Post in convenient areas the names, addresses,
and phone numbers of physicians and hospitals,
and members of the organization who are to be
called in case of emergency.
17. All equipment MUST BE electrically connected
according to the National Electric Code and be
consistent with other accepted practices.
18. Provide adequate and proper fi re protection
equipment.
Power Press Guarding
1. Press manufacturers do not know and cannot
foresee the magnitude of potential applications
of power presses. Therefore, only the press user
can determine the type of guards that have to be
used in order to perform the job safely. It is the
responsibility of the user management to make
certain that point of operation guarding and other
necessary safety devices are installed. The press
should be guarded in such a manner that it is
impossible for the operators to place their hands
or any other part of the body in the die area.
2. The press user should become thoroughly
acquainted with the safety devices commonly
employed in power press operations.
3. Feeding devices are strongly recommended, since
they remove the operator from the die area, and
therefore allow more effective utilization of guards
and safety devices.
4. Do not release a press for production before
installing and testing all guards and covers.
5. Make frequent evaluation checks of all guarding
and devices while the press is running. Correct
all unsafe
fi ndings immediately.
Regulations & Guidelines for
Safe Operation