Design Aspects

of Machine
Guarding
Adarsh S Mohan
M23CHIS01
Table of contents

01 Purpose 05 Guard Placement

02 Guarding Principles 06 Worth a thousand words

03 Guard Design

04 Guard Ergonomics
01. Purpose
Combat Hazard
The hazards posed by an
unguarded machine are
obvious: in the worst of all
cases the machine can do to
your body parts what it’s doing
to the materials it’s designed to
cut, shape, or form.
Major goal of OSHA
One of the major goals of OSHA is to
guard all machinery and equipment to
eliminate hazards created by points of
operation, ingoing nip points, rotating
points, and flying chips and sparks.
02. Guarding Principles
Prevent contact Secure No interference
Prevent worker’s body Firmly secured to Must not prevent worker
or clothing from machine and not easily from performing the job
contacting hazardous removed. quickly and
moving parts comfortably.

Create no new Protect from Allow safe

hazard falling objects lubrication
Must not have shear Ensure that no objects If possible, be able to
points, jagged edges or can fall into moving lubricate the machine
unfinished surfaces. parts. without removing the
safeguards
03
GUARD
DESIGN
Design for easy removal Guards can only be
and replacement - makes removed with the aid
tasks such as cleaning, of a tool
machine adjustment or
belt changes easier
particularly if this needs Guard material must
to be done regularly. be of a good quality

Hinged guards must

be interlocked.

Good design will aid

dust and noise
reduction
04. Guard Ergonomics
Reach Minimum Distance Assumed

Arm reach 850mm- upper arm to fingertip

Elbow reach 550mm – inside elbow to fingertip

Wrist reach 230mm – wrist to tip of middle finger

Vertical reach 2500mm – floor to danger point

Finger reach 130mm

 Distance include an allowance for clearance from danger points

05. Guard Placement
Size of mesh or other Minimum Distance between
opening in guard guard and danger point
Less than 9 mm 15 mm

9 to 25 mm 120 mm

25 to 40 mm 200 mm

Greater than 40 mm 1000 mm

 Distance from underside of guard to the floor shall not exceed 250 mm
06.
Worth a
thousand
words
Thank you..