As you probably know, OSHA publishes a list list of the ten most commonly cited standard violations every year. And every year, 1910.212 (Machine Guarding) is on the list.
As a result, we’ve pulled together some machine guarding resources to help you use machine guarding more properly, to comply with OSHA machine guarding rules, and to avoid those nasty OSHA fines. And don’t forget to download our free OSHA General Industry Machine Guarding Checklist, too.
Let us know if you’ve got some other resources you’d suggest. The comments field awaits.
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In this section, we provide a lot of “basics” about machine guarding, machine guarding hazards, and machine guarding for hazard control. This information is drawn from an OSHA publication on machine guarding.
Dangerous moving parts that need to be guarded tend to be located in three areas. These are:
Inspect these three areas for safety hazards on a machine.
Watch for these potentially dangerous motions:
Watch for these potentially dangerous actions:
OSHA provides a nice list, which we’ve included here for you.
OSHA’s also got some nice drawings of these. Check ’em out here.
Your machine guarding safeguard should:
Be sure workers receive proper safety training, including:
The hierarchy of controls is a method to use when trying to create a solution for a workplace hazard. The idea is you should try one type of control before trying another. In order, the types of controls you should try are:
For more, check out the HoC article and free JHA guide, below.
Guards can be removed for maintenance and repair, but only by specially trained maintenance personnel. In those cases, energy sources should be isolated and the machine should be locked and tagged out. Read more about maintenance, repair, isolation of energy, and lockout/tagout at OSHA’s website here, or check out our courses Lockout/Tagout for the Affected Employees and Lockout/Tagout for Authorized Employees.
We’ve included course samples of those two online lockout tagout training courses below, plus here’s an entire blog devoted to the issue of online lockout tagout training.
Lockout Tagout for Affected Employees
Lockout Tagout for Authorized Employees
Yep, here’s OSHA’s helpful Machine Guarding Safety and Health topic page.
Here’s OSHA’s Machine Guarding eTool.
They do. Here are a few:
Yep, we’ve made a free downloadable machine guarding checklist in PDF format for you. Just click that link or the button at the bottom of this article.
Here’s the NIOSH Machine Safety website.
OSHA offers a nice list of them here, and provides some helpful thoughts about incorporating both industry consensus standards and OSHA regulations.
Hope that helped point you in the right direction on machine guarding. Don’t forget to check out our online machine guarding training course. And there’s a free guide to help you with OSHA General Industry Machine Guarding Compliance, too.
Download this free checklist to help your compliance efforts with OSHA’s general industry machine guarding regulations.
Jeff Dalto, Senior Learning & Performance Improvement Manager
Jeff is a learning designer and performance improvement specialist with more than 20 years in learning and development, 15+ of which have been spent working in manufacturing, industrial, and architecture, engineering & construction training. Jeff has worked side-by-side with more than 50 companies as they implemented online training. Jeff is an advocate for using evidence-based training practices and is currently completing a Masters degree in Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning from Boise State University. He writes the Vector Solutions | Convergence Training blog and invites you to connect with him on LinkedIn.
