Machine Guardin

Questions

1 Person engaged in designing equipment and its guarding must be trained and
certified as competent by respective business.

Any person removing a machine guard must be trained and designated as a

2 competent which include as appropriate any redesign, construction, installation,
maintenance, inspection, cleaning and operation of the equipment and its
guards.by the respective business.

3 Activities are shall not be performed on running equipment or machines in

motion and isolations shall be in place

Every business must ensure that machine guards:

3.2.1. Are of sufficiently robust construction to prevent ejected machine parts or
material penetrating the guard;
4 3.2.2. Do not give rise to additional hazards;
3.2.3. Are not easily bypassed or made non-operational; 3.2.4.
Are located at an adequate distance from the danger zone;
3.2.5. Cause minimum obstruction of view for machine operators; and
3.2.6. Enable essential work to be done without guard removal.

Systems and equipment such as engineering interlocks, conveyor’s logic, audio

5 warning, and visual display for the operator shall be in place for the safe startup of
conveyors

Before starting, equipment shall be physically inspect to ensure that:

3.6.1. Nobody is working on the equipment, e.g. the conveyor system;
6 3.6.2. Access platforms are clear;
3.6.3. Guards are fitted; and
3.6.4. Permit to work and isolation are surrendered.

7 Inspection, maintenance and testing procedures shall be in place to ensure that

guards and protection devices are maintained in good working order

Place score of 1 in the relevant box in each row

Score ONLY one box per row using ONLY the number 1
Machine Guarding
Fully
Started but effective in
Evidence Not started not fully most
effective situations
(>75%)

Training and competency records

Field observations to observe whether employees are competent.

List of authorized employees and their training records

Field observations on standard operating procedure and PPE
usage

Verify documents and field observation

Documented system controls

Evidence of the effectiveness from field observations

Field observations

Field observations

Verify documents
Field observation

0.0 0.0 0.0

0% 0% 0%

Total Percent Implemented

Fully effective
100% of the
time

0.0
0%

0%