Can metal lathes be made safe?
30 November, 2009 by Frank Schrever*Metal lathes are dangerous machines that can cause serious injury. A simple interlocked chuck guard that prevents the machine from starting while open can reduce most lathe safety risks. These guards and controls are adaptable for just about every brand of lathe and, applied correctly can eliminate risks without depending on human behaviour.
Company director and firm convicted and fined $815,000 over workplace death
17 November, 2009A Victorian company director was convicted and fined $65,000, while his company was convicted on two counts and fined a total of $750,000 over a workplace death on an unguarded machine.
Printer fined over fifth workplace injury
06 November, 2009An Adelaide printing business was convicted and fined in the SA Industrial Relations Court, after pleading guilty to its fifth breach of workplace safety laws.
Employer fined over fingertip loss
06 November, 2009An Adelaide Hills food business has been fined over an incident in which a mincer amputated an employee’s fingertip.
Guard your machines and protect your employees
30 September, 2009 by Andrew Douglas*A recent NSW Industrial Court ruling over an injury sustained by a worker from an unguarded machine stresses the importance of avoiding taking short cuts just to meet production schedules at the risk of injuring employees.
Fine over injury on unguarded machine
28 September, 2009An Adelaide kitchen maker and one of its supervisors have been fined in the Industrial Court over an incident in which a teenage employee had a section of finger amputated at the company’s workshop.
Upgraded safety locks
18 September, 2009 byThe H31 safety lock mechanism has been replaced with the upgraded mGard CL disc tumbler lock.
Manufacturer fined over burn incident
10 August, 2009Caroma was recently fined over an incident at its South Australian operations that left an employee with severe burns.
SA employers fined for rail and factory injuries
03 August, 2009In a busy day at the Magistrates Court of South Australia (Industrial), three companies were convicted and fined over incidents in 2007 where workers sustained injuries from inadequate safety measures.
SA sawmill fined over worker's head injury
27 July, 2009A South Australian company has been convicted and fined $36,000 over a serious head injury sustained by one of its workers from an unguarded machine.
Adelaide engineering firm convicted over apprentice's death
29 June, 2009An Adelaide company has been convicted and fined $72,000 over the death of an 18-year-old apprentice who was dragged into an ungaurded rotating machine in 2004.
Fine for SA sawmill injury
23 June, 2009An Adelaide sawmill company has been convicted and fined over an incident that left a worker with a painful groin injury in 2007.
Man dies after being caught in lathe
23 June, 2009A man has died in hospital two weeks after his clothes were caught in an operating lathe at a factory in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
Pilz PSENslock safety gate switch and interlock
09 June, 2009Pilz has introduced a gate switch with an interlock with a non-contact transponder for the switching function and an electromagnet to hold the gate closed.
Light curtain
09 June, 2009 byDesigned for the protection of workers exposed to dangerous machines, the Admiral AX light curtain features two safe static outputs and can work without external control units, with all the safety functions integrated inside the emitter and the receiver. It complies with the requirements of the European Standard EN61496-1 and the International Standard IEC 61496-1-2.
