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SAFM 3413 - Applied Safety Engineering Assignment - Northeastern State University, USA
This week we will examine machine hazards and controls, based on the following materials:
- Textbook Chapter 6: Safeguarding
- OSHA's online Fatality and Catastrophe Investigation Summaries:
- OSHA's online Machine Guarding e-Tool:
Questions -
Q1. What is your name? (not a complete sentence)
Table Saws
Q2. Go to OSHA's online Fatality and Catastrophe Investigation Summaries: (see page 4 of this study guide). Find a report involving a worker injured at the point of operation (the rotating blade) while using a table saw (click "T" in the Alphabetical Keyword List; then click "Table Saw"). Discuss your report as follows:
a. List the "Inspection Number" of the incident. Length of answer: 1 number.
b. Describe what happened in your case. Minimum length of answer: 10 words.
Q3. Go to OSHA's online Machine Guarding e-Tool: (see page 5 of this study guide). Click the link for "Saws." Next, click the link for "Table Saws." Next, click "Point of Operation." Provide the following information:
a. Discuss ONE solution listed by OSHA for guarding the point of operation. Minimum length of answer: 10 words.
b. Discuss ONE other solution listed by OSHA for point of operation hazards not involving guards. Minimum length of answer: 10 words.
Radial Arm Saws
Q4. Go to OSHA's online Fatality and Catastrophe Investigation Summaries: Find a report involving a worker injured at the point of operation (the rotating blade) while using a radial arm saw (type the term "radial arm saw" in the Abstract Search Box. Discuss your report as follows:
a. List the "Inspection Number" of the incident. Length of answer: 1 number.
b. Describe what happened in your case. Minimum length of answer: 10 words.
Q5. Go to OSHA's online Machine Guarding e-Tool: Click the link for "Saws." Next, click the link for "Radial Saws." Next, click "Point of Operation."
a. Discuss ONE solution listed by OSHA for guarding the point of operation. Minimum length of answer: 10 words.
b. Discuss ONE other solution listed by OSHA for point of operation hazards not involving guards. Minimum length of answer: 10 words.
Power Presses
6. Go to OSHA's online Fatality and Catastrophe Investigation Summaries: Find a report involving a worker injured at the point of operation (by the crushing motion) of a power press. To find a case, use the Alphabetical Keyword List and click any of the following: "Power Press", "Press Brake", or "Hydraulic Press". Discuss your report as follows:
a. List the "Inspection Number" of the incident. Length of answer: 1 number.
b. Describe what happened in your case. Minimum length of answer: 10 words.
Q7. Go to OSHA's online Machine Guarding e-Tool: Click the link for "Presses." Next, click the links for the type of press that best matches the one involved in your incident (e.g., mechanical power press [full- or part-revolution], hydraulic press, pneumatic press, powered press brake). Next, click "Point of Operation." Discuss THREE methods listed by OSHA for guarding the point of operation of the press Minimum length of answer: 30 words.
Attachment:- Applied Safety Engineering Assignment File.rar