Reader offer: Machinery safety guides and utilities
July 1st 2007 Available free to IPE readers
from Procter Machine
Guarding is a kit comprising
the latest editions of its popular
machinery safety guides and
software utilities. Three of these are
designed to help designers,
builders and users of machinery
comply with current regulations
and standards; the fourth is for
managers who want to prepare
themselves for all eventualities.
The latest seven-page PDF
edition of the On Your Guard guide
to machinery guarding standards
gives health and safety managers,
guarding specifiers, machine
designers and health and safety
representatives the basics, as well
as showing them where they can
find out more about specific topics.
The guide highlights the full
range of regulations and standards
that are applicable, as well as
indicating what the current versions
are. Contact details are provided
for sources of further information,
measured at the inlet with an
airflow of 370m3/h. It is supplied
with a 10m mains cable, a filter for
the separation of air and swarf and
a removable, powder-coated 35L
mesh basket for the separation of
liquids and swarf.
It has a 1.4m2 fluid and oil
resistant filter cartridge for final
filtration and a high performance
integrated pump for pumping out
liquids. Operating noise level is
68dB(A).
Hot wash unit
Gas monitor
Under the Control of Noise at Work
regulations, effective from April
2006, hearing tests are mandatory
for everyone above the upper
action value and advised for
employees who may be at
particular risk of hearing loss.
To help companies achieve this,
First Stop Safety has introduced a
one-day Industrial Audiometry
workshop that covers many
aspects of hearing tests, including
Otoscopy, use of manual
audiometers and PC-based
devices. delegates will be able to
practice on different types of
audiometers and get to grips with
HSE recommendations.
The first course will be in York in
September and will count towards
a delegate's IOSH CPD scheme.
such as the HSE, BSI and DTI.
The second item in the kit is a
risk assessment calculator that is
based on the requirements of BS
EN 1050, the standard for
machinery risk assessments. Easy
to use, it incorporates check-lists
and look-up tables to enable risk
assessments to be carried out on
almost any static machinery. A
Hazard Rating Number and Risk
Level are calculated automatically
for each identified hazard.
The risk assessment calculator is
based on a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet.
Another Excel-based utility is a
Safety Distance Calculator for
establishing the required safety
distances and heights of machine
guards in accordance with BS EN
294. Simple to use, it requires
selections to be made via intuitive
drop-down menus.
A new version of the Machine
Accident Investigation Kit has been
published to help small and
medium-sized manufacturing
companies perform investigations
so they meet statutory obligations
and prevent similar accidents from
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