Safety Talk

What’s at Stake? Exposure to unguarded or improperly guarded machines causes over 1000 deaths and 20,000 serious cuts, crushing injuries, scalpings and amputations every year. These injuries are gruesome, painful and often disabling and happen when working with any machine or tool that can punch, spin, rotate, shear, bend, cut, roll, grind or slice. What’s the Danger? Machines have one or more of the following four hazardous motions involved in their operation. 1. Rotating – or circular motion. 2. Reciprocating - or back-and-forth or up-and-down motion. 3. Transverse – or straight line motion; and 4. In-running nip points – also called pinch points. Getting any part of your […]