Machine Safeguarding Skill Builder Seminar

Machine Safeguarding Skill Builders are 1 or 1.5 day training seminars that educate your personnel on the requirements and methods of machine and process safeguarding.

• Are you confident your machines are guarded to the relevant standards?

• Have all steps been taken to prevent injuries from process equipment?

• Has a documented machine guarding assessment been done to verify compliance?

If you're not sure, or the answer is no to any of these questions, then your facility can benefit from an Omron Machine Safeguarding Skill Builder Seminar.

What is a Skill Builder?

Skill Builders are 1 or 1.5-day training seminars that educate your personnel on the requirements and methods of machine and process safeguarding.

This helps plant personnel to identify, and sometimes correct, machine safeguarding discrepancies. Two professionals will conduct the training at your manufacturing plant.

Skill Builder require an investment of USD1, 250 include expense for a class attendance of 20 participants.

Who Should Attend?

• EH&S Personnel

• Plant Maintenance

• Plant Engineering

• Production Managers

• All Managers concerned with the safety of plant personnel

The Machine Safeguarding Skill Builder program has the most impact when the corporate EH&S Manager along with the plant-level safety people meet at one plant location. Classes are small with no more than 20 in attendance.

How Do They Benefit?

Attendees will walk away with a greater understanding of methods for machine safeguarding and the correct applications of guarding devices.

Your plant personnel are trained on:

• Identifying machine hazards

• Machine hazard risk assessment

• Machine guarding techniques and the latest safeguarding technologies

• Machine guarding requirements as set by regulatory and consensus standards

• Safety circuit design requirements based on risk level

• Practical application

Is it Practical?
Are you confident your machines are guarded to the relevant standards?

After the Skill Builder Training is complete, the group goes to the plant floor to participate in a Machine Guarding Inspection. The purpose of this inspection is to raise awareness of obvious guarding shortcomings so that you can act to prevent injuries to personnel. Attendees will apply skills learned by working side-by-side with a machine guarding specialist to evaluate several machines and their current guarding. Many of these discrepancies may be corrected by plant maintenance personnel; however, some may require additional expertise. After the evaluation, there is a group discussion for a better understanding of the findings.

After that, the only thing we ask is that you commit to correcting your safeguarding discrepancies.

Six Steps to a Safe Plant

The proven process for successfully safeguarding a plant is as follows:

1. Educate responsible corporate and plant level personnel through training seminars on machine guarding,

2. Conduct a plant machine guarding evaluation to identify obvious concerns or imminent danger to employees,

3. Conduct a risk level assessment and create a risk reduction plan,

4. Implement the risk reduction plan,

5. Train operators and maintenance personnel on the care and use of the new safeguarding systems, and

6. Periodic machine safety audits to ensure safe mounting distances and proper application of safeguards that may have changed due to a change in the process or the machine's uses.

Schedule a Skill Builder now!