Safeguards are designed to protect you from machine-related injuries. You should always make sure that safeguards:
A. Come in your favorite color. B. Prevent objects from being ejected toward people. C. Do not prevent access to point of operation and power transmission apparatus. D. All the above.
If you have questions about machine safeguarding, you should contact:
A. A dietician in Nutrition Services. B. The Hospital Police. C. Facilities Management. D. Information Services.
Electric shocks and burns are experienced by workers every year from unprotected machine parts.
A. True B. False
If you can contact the moving parts on a machine, the machine must be guarded.
In order to make sure that the safeguards work effectively:
A. Always remove or defeat safeguards while operating the machinery. B. Remove guards only when machine is locked and tagged out. C. Never report any machine guard problems or failures to supervisors. D. Only sissies worry about safeguards.
Reaching around, under, over, or through guards into hazardous areas are actions, on the part of the machine operator, that will not cause injuries.
END Machine Guarding TEST
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