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Feasibility For Machine Guarding Is A Big Deal For Employers and Employees

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Finding safeguards for a specific task is challenging because a physical guard may not be feasible. OSHA AND FEASIBILITY The OSH Act is the relevant law, and OSHA standards are the relevant regulations for most employers and employees in the United States. All machinery contains hazards, and some level of residual risk.

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Assessing Feasibility

FDR Safety

General Industry is now in a position to solve many of their decades-old problems with the control of hazardous energy. The answers can be determined but only after documented due diligence using Task Based Risk Assessment (past blogs) and assessing feasibility of hazard controls. For a FREE consultation, please contact us.

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FDR Safety

Finding safeguards for a specific task is challenging because a physical guard may not be feasible. OSHA AND FEASIBILITY The OSH Act is the relevant law, and OSHA standards are the relevant regulations for most employers and employees in the United States. All machinery contains hazards, and some level of residual risk.

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Defining acceptable risk in LOTO or machine guarding

FDR Safety

Safety professionals concerned with safety, efficiency and compliance should have the concepts of “acceptable risk” and “feasibility” in the forefront of their thinking. In every case, the “acceptable risk” and “feasibility” of lockout/tagout or machine guarding was the central issue. ANSI B11.0 The foreword to ANSI B11.0

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How to Achieve Acceptable Risk with TaBRA

FDR Safety

In past years I’ve written about the value of the ANSI B11 standards and risk assessment. Key to learning how risk assessment and feasible risk reduction work together is to undergo experiential learning. Key to learning how risk assessment and feasible risk reduction work together is to undergo experiential learning.

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PTD Before Risk Assessment: A Historical Perspective

FDR Safety

Many forces and efforts have led those of us who are engaged in the practice of safety to where we are in PTD today, but with this article, the author presents a glimpse of the fundamental occurrences in one industry that have led to the progressive use of PTD in other industries. Lack of knowledge prevents providing a broader scope.

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? Updated ANSI standards a significant tool for U.S. industry

FDR Safety

A new series of ANSI standards is now available to assist employers in assessing how to comply with OSHA standards, determine feasible safeguards or harmonize with ISO and U.S. The ANSI B11 series of standards is for general industry machine safety. There is no such thing as being absolutely safe, that is, a complete absence of risk.