Machine Safeguarding Training

The injuries sustained from machinery are serious enough to affect employees' ability to continue to work. In addition to the costs to injured workers, there are additional costs to employers: medical payments, workers' compensation, lost work days and supervisory time.

An important means of keeping the workplace safe is machine safeguarding, which refers to specific controls designed to prevent employees from coming into contact with equipment that could cause injury. Many factors can lead to injuries around unguarded machines:

• Inattentiveness or boredom

• Emotional issues, such as anger

• Haste

• Distractions
  

The Blueprints for Safety® Machine Safeguarding Program is designed to provide a step-by-step approach to develop a machine safeguarding program for your company.

The outcomes of your machine safeguarding program will be as follows:

• Identification of the mechanical and other hazards posed by the equipment and machinery in your workplace

• Selection and use of proper safeguards

• Well-trained employees who know how to protect themselves from machine-related hazards

• Compliance with OSHA requirements
  

Creating a program for machine safeguarding attempts to take the human factor out of the situation and the savings from preventing even one serious injury far outweigh the costs of providing the safeguarding.