Sensitise about Machine Safety

Sensitise about Machine Safety  30 Min

Introduce Machine safety and highlight potential hazards and risks when using machineries. Highlight the importance that each machine can potentially be harmful. It is crucial to know how to use and maintain the machine and be aware about the risks and potential injuries if the machine is not maintained well or is not operated as required.

Visual Aid 3.4.16:  Other Protection Equipment

Machine Safety: potential hazards around machines
Operating machine: Can cause crushed and caught injuries by gripping clothing or forcing arms/hands or other body parts into dangerous positions.
Reciprocating machine May injure an employee by back-and forth or up-and-down motion when struck by or caught between moving and stationary parts (e.g., saw blades, knives, etc.)
Chemical hazards: Unsafe handling of product, causing toxic fumes emitted from metals, wood dusts, etc.) or the machine itself (e.g., contact with or inhalation of cutting oil mists or cleaning compounds, etc.)