Ensuring Safety Compliance with Uniguard Machine Guards
Machine Guarding Requirements for Uniguard Machine Guards
Compliance with OSHA 1910.219, ANSI B11.19-2010 ,ANSI Z535, and MSHA.
Required to prevent entry of hands, fingers, or other parts of the body into a point of hazard by reaching through, over, under, or around the guard.
Required to withstand a (250 lb. load or 113 Kilograms).
Required to prevent entry. Openings shall be no greater than 6mm (.250″).
Required to utilize fasteners requiring hand tools for removal.
Required to be constructed of a substantial material.
Required to have a readily visible safety label (ANSI Z535).
Required to be safety orange in color, when a safety color is used.
Required to prevent injury from component breakage. (Non-catastrophic).
Required to provide hinged or sliding covers when lubrication is required.
Disclaimer
Uniguards are not a Ballistic Shield The UniGuard Coupling or V-Belt guard is designed as a safety device, when used during normal operation and when properly installed and positioned, to prevent fingers, hands, arms, and clothing from contacting the rotating coupling or V-Belt Drive. The guard is not intended to be a containment shell in the event of catastrophic failure of the coupling inside the guard. The guard is not designed as a ballistic shield. Although the guards are very robust, its sole purpose is to prevent human contact in areas with potential hazard from rotating couplings or V-Belts drives.
Static Discharge
The UniGuard Coupling or V-Belt guard is designed as a safety device, when used during normal operation and when properly installed and positioned; to prevent fingers, hands, arms, and clothing from contacting the rotating/moving components. These Guards are made of a corrosion resistant engineered plastic material which is non-conductive. The materials which make up the guards do not create sparks when impacted by a striking object. They do not readily conduct electricity, so a static build up is conceivable. Thousands of these guards have been sold into various applications and to date we have never received any indication of a static discharge issue. There is no possible way to test every possible coupling/V-belt drive combination or other conditions which could lead to a static discharge. We do not recommend the use of the UniGuard machine guard in Explosion Proof areas simply as an untested precaution, not due to any known concerns.