Metal Cutting Guillotines - Safety Principles for
This booklet illustrates types of guards for metal cutting guillotines used throughout the engineering industry and similar machines used in other industries.
Opportunity has been taken to illustrate not only conventional methods of guarding, but also to show how methods of aiding production such as mechanical handling can be contrived to promote, as well as facilitate, tidiness and general good industrial housekeeping.
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
Introduction
Definition
Accident Causes
Requirement of Machinery Act 1950
Prime Mover and Transmission
Dangerous Parts - Blade and Clamp
Manual or Treadle Operated Machines
Power-Operated Machines
Back Guard
Guard Design
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