Doing It Right 2 (Machine Guarding)

Where I work (please no names), we have a sheet metal shop that makes HVAC duct work to install in people’s homes. When I first started as safety manager, I noticed that the guys in the shop were using old blowers from furnaces as fans because the shop gets extremely hot in the summer. I also noticed the blowers had fan belts and fans that weren’t guarded, so I brought it to the foreman’s attention, and he made his own. I went over the OSHA standards for machine guarding, showed him how to use a “gotcha-gauge”, and here is what he came up with. He also made machine guards for some other machines in the shop, which I have also attached.