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Resources related to machine guarding:
1) Basic Machine Safety – Paper, Printing and Converting Certification Part 2
This half-day module is part of the suite of workplace-specific hazard training for pulp and
paper operations. It provides certified members with the knowledge and skills to recognize,
assess and control the most prevalent hazards in their workplaces.
2) Machine Guarding in Forestry Workplaces
This half-day training program provides important information about recognizing, assessing
and guarding mechanical motion hazards that workers are exposed to when operating or
conducting maintenance, repairs or troubleshooting on typical machines, equipment and
work processes in forestry operations.
Information
- Safe Methods for Machine Guarding booklet – mining; Basic Machine Safety booklet
– pulp and paper -- Visit http://www.workplacesafetynorth.ca/products.html.
- CCOHS OSH Answers Conveyor Safety
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/safety_haz/conveyor_safety.html
- Worksafe BC Machine Guarding checklist
http://www2.worksafebc.com/PDFs/manufacturing/Safeguarding_infoflip1.pdf
- Worksafe BC Machine Safeguarding Machinery and Equipment 100 page document
http://www.worksafebc.ca/publications/health_and_safety/by_topic/assets/pdf/
safeguarding_machinery.pdf
- OSHA Concepts and Techniques of Machine Safeguarding
http://www.osha.gov/Publications/Mach_SafeGuard/toc.html
- NIOSH Machine Safety
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/machine/
For more information regarding these and other Workplace Safety North programs or
products call us toll free at 1-888-730-7821 or visit www.workplacesafetynorth.ca/training.
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MACHINERY: A
CRITICAL WORKPLACE
HAZARD
In almost every type of workplace,
workers are suffering serious
injuries getting caught, squeezed,
pinched, crushed and compressed
by machinery. Machinery hazards
are one of the top four sources of
injury across Ontario, prompting a
Ministry of Labour inspection blitz
late in 2010.
The forestry, mining, paper and
printing industries are no exception:
from 2005 to 2009 inclusive,
Workplace Safety North clients
reported 825 lost-time injuries
due to workers being caught in
or compressed by equipment or
objects.
Though printing equipment was
involved in almost 18 per cent of
all reported incidents, and paper
production equipment almost 11
per cent, the remaining 70 per cent
involved a wide range of machinery
in various sectors including mine
drilling equipment, logging and
wood processing equipment, both
powered and gravity conveyors,
and stationary sawing equipment –
none of which accounted for more
than four per cent on their own.
Of the workers involved in the
incidents:
- 17 per cent suffered an
amputation
- 25 per cent suffered a fracture
- 20 per cent suffered cuts and
lacerations
- 15 per cent suffered bruises and
contusions
- 24 per cent suffered a range of
injuries such as burns, sprains,
strains, dislocations, etc. . .
Proper machine guarding and
specific lockout procedures are key
to preventing machinery-related
incidents and injuries.