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Press Machine Safety Guide
(For employers and employees)
This safety guide is an English translation of Japanese safety guide based on
Japanese laws and regulations.
Please comply with your country's laws and regulations if you are outside of Japan.
Seventh edition
September 2018
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Summary of Contents for Amada TP150FX
- Page 1 Press Machine Safety Guide (For employers and employees) This safety guide is an English translation of Japanese safety guide based on Japanese laws and regulations. Please comply with your country's laws and regulations if you are outside of Japan. Seventh edition September 2018...
- Page 2 (See “Responsibilities of employer” on the next page.) Several examples of preventive measures are introduced here. Safeguarding devices recommended by AMADA are offered as options. Please study and adopt them. For machine safeguarding procedures, etc., refer to “Guidelines for the Comprehensive Safety Standards of Machinery”...
- Page 3 (Article 28-2 of Act) For data concerning residual risks peculiar to specific machines and required to perform risk assessment, contact AMADA. (3) Preventing hazards Take appropriate safeguarding measures to ensure the safety of press operators. (Article...
- Page 4 (5) Conducting safety and health education Conduct safety and health education to workers who operate the machine for the first time. (Article 35 of Ordinance) Provide special education to workers who change or adjust dies. (Article 36 of Ordinance and Article 3 of Rules on Special Safety and Health Education) (6) Inspecting before start of day’s work Inspect the machine before the start of the day’s work.
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Page 5: Operating Environment
1. Operating environment and installation space of press machine 1-1. Operating environment Use the press machine in the following environment. If used outside the operating environment in the table below, the machine and safety devices will not function properly, causing a fire, failure, malfunction, or damage, which may lead to personal injury. - Page 6 1-2. Installation space When installing a machine, secure adequate maintenance space around the machine. If the press machine cannot be inspected and maintained adequately, the machine and safety devices will not function properly, which will impair safety. The figure below is the minimum maintenance space required in the front, rear, left and right of the press machine.
- Page 7 2. Protection examples 2-1. Basic protection method In order to prevent the danger of being caught in the die, firstly prevent entry into the hazardous area, and if it is impossible, adopt a light curtain or the like to stop the press machine.
- Page 8 2-3. Measures against entry from outside (under lower limit ) of protection range Before installing a guard or safety device, sufficiently consider the physique and working posture of workers. If it is assumed that a part of body enters the hazardous area by going through under the lower limit of the guard range or the protection range of a light curtain, take measures such as completely shielding the working surface or furnishing a light curtain combined with a baffle plate.
- Page 9 2-5. Measures against entry from outside (rear side) of protection range You also have to assume that a third person may activate the machine when you are working inside the machine for adjustment or cleaning. You also need to consider protection for assistant workers and third persons. Protect with a fixed rear guard or a light curtain against the entry from the rear side and the inadvertent activation by a third person.
- Page 10 2-7. Protection from flying objects Be sure to adopt a guard-type protection when flying of fragments due to breakage of the die is foreseeable. Flying of fragments is not limited toward the front. Be sure to consider protection of persons other than workers. With automatic machines, an accident is likely to occur at setup more than in normal production.
- Page 11 3. Other devices/functions In order to use the press machine more safely, the following equipment and devices are furnished as standard features or available as options. Choose them according to the contents of your work. 3-1. Electrical enclosure main circuit breaker [Standard feature] Opening the door of the electrical enclosure with the power on will lead to fatal accidents due to electric shock because of a high voltage.
- Page 13 AMADA hopes that this safety guide book will help you to provide a safe workplace for your press machine operators. If you have something to know about the safeguarding of press machines or need more information or proposals, contact AMADA.
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