The safety of machinery affects all of us in everyday life, at home or at work or at leisure. Machines are part of our lives and our safety is dependent on the machines being safe for us to use at all times. Machines that have moving parts and workers who operate them have an uneasy relationship. Machines make workers more productive and enable them to form and shape material in ways that would be impossible with hand tools. Technology can make machines safer, but as long as workers need machines to help them process material — to cut, shear, punch, bend, or drill — they’ll be exposed to moving parts that could harm them. Much of the danger occurs at the point of operation, where the work is performed and where the machine cuts, shears, punches, bends, or drills. Crushed hands and arms, severed fingers, blindness - the list of possible machinery-related injuries is as long as it is horrifying.
The trend of accident statistics in the industry show that majority of accidents in manufacturing and service industries are due to machinery whether it is moved by power or operated manually. To safeguard workers who operate and maintain machin...