Overview of OSHA requirements and safeguards for machinery and their parts. Overview OSHA stipulates that any machine (part or process) that presents the risk of injury must be safeguarded. In order to prevent operators as well as other employees from injury caused by hazards such as rotating parts, flying objects, ingoing nip points etc. It is the employer’s responsibility to maintain and inspect equipment/machinery to ensure proper working order. All equipment posing the aforementioned hazards are covered under the current regulation (this includes portable and/or hand tools). A guarding method may be in the form of barrier guards, two-hand tripping devices, or electronic […]