Procter Machine Guarding has published a second edition of Workshop Safety - A Guide to Guarding Machine Tools Used in Workshops. This FREE guide to workshop safety will benefit anyone responsible for the safety of machinery and work equipment in production facilities, maintenance departments, educational establishments, research laboratories or other areas where drilling machines, milling machines, lathes and similar machine tools are used.

Written so as to deliver advice and guidance in 'plain English' - but with useful pointers to more detailed information - the guide covers the following topics: costs and benefits of machine guards; regulations and legislation; general requirements for machine guards; requirements for specific machine types; other measures relating to machinery safety; British, European and international standards; official information and guidance; useful resources; and sources of further information.

The second edition of the booklet benefits from new statistics for machine-related accidents, more information about drilling machines, an updated standards listing and up-to-date contact details.

Under the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, employers are required to take effective measures to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery or stop their movement before any part of a person enters a danger zone.

The workshop safety guidance from Procter Machine Guarding explains what can be done to comply with the regulations in a cost-effective manner.

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