Machine guards must not become their own hazards or exacerbate existing hazards. Analyze designs to eliminate guards that can be left off, those that fail easily and catastrophically, and those that ...

Manufacturers face a variety of machine guarding challenges: old equipment vs. new equipment; point-of-operation vs. mechanical power transmission; highly automated, multiple-purpose machines vs.

Safeguards either must prevent entry into a hazardous area or detect entry into the hazardous area and eliminate the hazard before it can present a danger. Guards (physical barriers) must be designed ...