Due to this fact, OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) has established a set of standards around machine guarding. The purpose of machine guarding is to protect the machine operator and ...

Jac MS LLC’s attempt to overturn OSHA citations stemming from the death of a worker caught in a machine that cuts chicken ...

A panel of Fifth Circuit judges appeared skeptical Tuesday of an OSHA citation related to the death of a worker caught in a ...

The hazards associated with moving machinery can be deadly. See information about RIT’s Machine Guarding program via the link to the right. The RIT Environmental Health & Safety Department provides ...

Typically, a machine guard barrier consists of safety trip controls, presence-sensing devices, and electromechanical sensing devices, which initiate a machine’s operating cycle only when it is safe to ...

Employees get caught in machinery that isn’t powered down during maintenance; ‘lockout’ regulations are frequently ignored in ...

Frommelt Safety’s Vertiguard Automated Barrier Panel is a bottom-up pneumatic panel that provides physical separation between machine operators ... the footprint of the guarding system as ...

A mill worker tried to call for help four times before he was fatally crushed by a packaging machine in Washington, officials ...

Many safety standards come into play for proper machine control at both a mechanical and electrical level. Proper mechanical machine guarding and access points, as well as elimination of identified ...

Noncontact safety interlock switches are machine safety products that provide a compact, non-contact way to interlock doors, guards, gates, and covers. The switch can be tripped by a simple action ...

On the corner, waiting at the white-lined crosswalk just a block from school, children line up to look both ways and be ...

Washington authorities fined the Camas paper mill operated by Georgia-Pacific nearly $650,000 in connection with the March 8 ...