IRRST Injection Moulding Machine Safety Checklists

Posted by on July 5, 2011

RG-687 CoverPlastic injec­tion mould­ing machines are one of the most dan­ger­ous machines in wide­spread use in indus­try. The Institut de recher­ché Robert-​​Sauvé en santé et en sécu­rité du tra­vail, is one of Canada’s lead­ing research cen­ters in occu­pa­tional health and safety. I would highly rec­om­mend the check­list to any­one deal­ing with these machines.

Note that ANSI B151.1 does not per­mit the use of risk assess­ment, thus the check­list does not imple­ment risk assess­ment. Nevertheless, I would strongly rec­om­mend that a detailed risk assess­ment be con­ducted on the machin­ery to ensure that ALL the risks have been effec­tively con­trolled, and not just those fore­seen by the B151.1 Technical Committee!

Abstract

The IRSST has pro­duced, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with pro­fes­sion­als from the plas­tics pro­cess­ing indus­try, a sim­ple tool for check­ing the safe­guards for hor­i­zon­tal plas­tic injec­tion mold­ing machines. Developed to sup­port com­pa­nies in the plas­tics pro­cess­ing indus­try in their efforts to pre­vent acci­dents involv­ing hor­i­zon­tal plas­tic injec­tion mold­ing machines, this doc­u­ment can also serve as a basic doc­u­ment in the train­ing offered to the per­son­nel in these com­pa­nies and to stu­dents in plas­tics pro­cess­ing. However, it does not allow a risk analy­sis to be done to deter­mine lim­i­ta­tions, to iden­tify haz­ards, and to esti­mate the risk; in these cases, the stan­dards must be con­sulted. The safety check­list was based on the rec­og­nized North American stan­dard ANSI/​SPI B151.1 – 2007.

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+DougNix is Managing Director and Principal Consultant at Compliance InSight Consulting, Inc. (http://​www​.com​pli​an​cein​sight​.ca) in Kitchener, Ontario, and is Lead Author and Managing Editor of the Machinery Safety 101 blog.

Doug’s work includes teach­ing machin­ery risk assess­ment tech­niques pri­vately and through Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Kitchener, Ontario, as well as pro­vid­ing tech­ni­cal ser­vices and train­ing pro­grams to clients related to risk assess­ment, indus­trial machin­ery safety, safety-​​related con­trol sys­tem inte­gra­tion and reli­a­bil­ity, laser safety and reg­u­la­tory conformity.

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