Machine Guard Safety

This Interactive course on Machine Guard Safety reviews the different types of hazards that are associated with using powered equipment and discusses the machine guard devices and safe work practices that employees should use to avoid them. The power of machinery enables us to do things that we could never do on our own. But more than 15,000 machine-related accidents also happen in the workplace every year. Most of these incidents could have be prevented by machine guards. Areas covered in the course include dangerous mechanical motions, fixed and interlock guards, guarding points of operation, protecting your hands, safe work practices and more.

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Topics covered in these products include:

  • Explain the hazards that machines can create for the people who work with them.
  • Know how different types of machine guards can help to protect them from these hazards.
  • Follow procedures to work with machinery safely.
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Associated Industries: Industrial Environments.
Associated Topic Titles: Hand & Power Tool Safety, Machine Guarding Safety.


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