Safety checklists machinery

You may have two or three checklists for inspecting equipment and machinery (1) site safety checklist, (2) safety equipment on machinery and equipment, and (3) systems checks — oil, hydraulic, etc. The following requirements are OSHA s contribution to your inspection checklists. 

The checklist in Addendum B at the conclusion of Chapter 8 is adapted from ISO 14121, the Safety of Machinery—Principles of Risk Assessment Standard. It is to serve as a guide for those who design and manufacture equipment and machinery that goes into European workplaces. 

OSHA usually concentrates on the safety featru es of equipment. Many other things can go wrong to make equipment vmsafe. That is why a pre-operational walk arormd and a pre-start up (in-cab) inspection is important. You should have checklists, tailored to each piece of equipment, for this process. Only those employees qualified by training or experience shordd be allowed to operate equipment and machinery. 

Checklists are easy to use and provide a cost-effective way to identify customarily recognized hazards. Nevertheless, the quality of checklists is dependent on the experience of the people who develop them. Furthermore, they must be crafted to suit particular needs. If a checklist is not complete, the analysis may not identify some hazardous situations. An example of a checklist for machinery design is provided in Addendum B at the end of this chapter. A checklist for general design purposes appears in Chapter 13, Safety Design Reviews. Both serve as resources for those who choose to build their own checklists. 

This checklist is an adaptation of information that appears in the ISO s Safety of Maehinery—Principles of Risk Assessment, Standard, IS014121. The checklist is a guide for companies located throughout the world who design and manufacture machinery and equipment that would go into European workplaces. Although the checklist pertains to a broad range of equipment, those who use it as a reference must understand that it could not possibly include all hazards and all hazardous situations. 

The next component of ABSS is a machine/equipment-specific checklist. This is a checklist that is used to focus on specific identified safety issues for each piece of machinery and/or equipment in the organization. This checklist is developed and updated by the employees and supervisor who works with and around the specific equipment with the input from the safety staff. The key to this list is not to make it overly detailed. We suggest that no more than 15 of the most important items are listed on this checklist, which may cover specific inherent hazards of a machine or equipment. Refer to Appendix P, Operator General Observations and Machine/ Equipment-Specific Daily Inspection Checklist . For an overview, refer to Figure 11.2, Sample General Observations and Machine/Iiquipment-Specific Daily Inspection Checklist . 

The commonest way to introduce order into safety inspection is to use checklists, and there are many examples—most textbooks on safety contain at least one. Although the examples can be used as models, the best checklists are those constructed for a particular workplace. The basis for them all, though, is much the same. They comprise a list of types of hazard, together with a list of how hazards could manifest themselves. Within a museum workshop, the main types of hazard are likely to be fire, chemicals, electricity, radiation, machinery, handling equipment, micro-organisms and the general work layout. Most of these are self-evident from a quick inspection of the workplace. 

The next component of ABSS is a machine/equipment-specific checklist. This checklist is used to focus on specific, identified safety-related issues for each piece of machinery and/or equipment in the organization. It is developed and updated by employees and the leadership team (Figure 11.9) (Appendix L). 

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