Business Improvement, Health & Safety
and Environmental Services and Systems
Photographs - Machinery risks and
guarding
Unguarded in-running nips on
(brand new, CE-marked)
press
Unguarded
press,
showing access to in-running nips
Press after fitting guard
Ineffective perimeter guard
Replacement of perimeter guard
by local guards
Exposed
in-running nip on controls
In-running
nip on spring-loaded rollers
Showing how
a gap can be guarded using flexible material
Good and bad
situation between belt and rollers
Suggested
position
(in red) of guard.
Typical
overriding of interlock on Muller trimmer
Local
guarding replacing perimeter guard which was always open
Guarding
held together by tie-wraps and will power. Not interlocked.
Showing
extent of opening before interlock stops machine
Exposed
in-running nips bewteen rollers.
