Safety with Machinery, Second Edition

Chapter 3: Typical Hazards of Machinery

3.1 Identification

An essential element in the safe use of machinery is the identification of hazards so that action can be taken to remove them before harm or injury are caused. This applies equally to new machines where the onus is on the designer and manufacturer as well as to existing machinery where the responsibility lies with the engineer and manager of the employer.

3.2 Agents of Hazards

Machinery hazards arise from a discrete number of sources movement, energy, sharp edges, electricity, materials, physical agents and radiations. Each of these is considered below.

Condition

Hazard

3.2.1

Movement:

  • rotation

  • entanglement (rotating parts with/without projections)

  • nipping/drawing-in (gears, nips of in-running rolls, chains, belts)

  • shear (sliding parts, spoked wheels, mowing machine blades, dough mixer blades)

  • cutting (rotary knives, abrasive wheels, bacon slicers, circular saws)

  • linear sliding

  • trapping, crushing (closing platens, feed tables and fixed structures)

  • shear (between adjacent machine parts, guillotines)

  • puncture (nailguns, wire stitching, stapling, sewing needles)

  • impact

  • abrasives

  • friction burns (rotating drums and cylinders)

  • abrasions (abrasive wheels, linishers)

  • ejection

  • material (grinding debris, leaking steam, air, hydraulic oils, dusts and fumes)

  • components (process material, components in manufacture)

  • machine parts (overload failure, excessive speed, jam up, broken parts)

3.2.2

Stored energy

  • air, steam or gas under pressure (pressure storage vessels and operating cylinders)

  • springs (actuating cylinders, robots, machining centres)

  • sudden release (relief valves,...

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