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Wire mesh machine guarding provides a durable, fixed barrier around machinery and equipment while maintaining visibility into the protected area.
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Machine guarding is a critical part of maintaining a safe industrial or manufacturing environment. Proper guarding helps protect employees from moving machinery, rotating components, flying debris, and other hazards while supporting safer, more efficient operations.
North American Safety Products provides customizable machine guarding solutions designed around the equipment, workflow, and requirements of your facility.
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Effective machine guarding needs to be designed around the specific machine, access requirements, and surrounding work environment. Guards, barriers, and shields can create the separation needed to help keep employees away from hazardous areas while maintaining necessary access for operation and maintenance.
NASP offers multiple machine guarding styles, from fixed wire mesh systems to retractable accordion-style guarding, allowing facilities to choose a solution that fits the application rather than forcing the application to fit the guard.
Choose from two primary guarding approaches or combine systems to create a solution tailored to your equipment and facility.
Wire mesh machine guarding provides a durable, fixed barrier around machinery and equipment while maintaining visibility into the protected area.
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Retractable accordion-style guarding provides floor-to-ceiling protection while allowing operators greater access to machinery when needed.
Explore Accordion GuardingMachine guards are generally categorized by how they are installed, accessed, and adjusted during machine operation.
Four common categories of machine guarding include fixed, interlocked, adjustable, and self-adjusting guards. Each approach provides a different method of separating employees from hazardous machine areas.
Stationary barriers permanently attached to the machine or surrounding work area, typically built from durable materials and designed to remain in place during operation.
Guards designed so that opening or removing the guard interrupts machine operation, preventing the machine from resuming until the guard is returned to position.
Permanent guards that can be manually adjusted to accommodate different material sizes or operating requirements while maintaining protection.
Guards that automatically adjust to the size of the material being processed, creating a protective barrier while allowing material to enter the machine.
Machine guarding can be applied across a wide range of equipment and point-of-operation hazards. Common applications include:
Machine guarding plays an important role across industries where employees interact with machinery, equipment, and moving components.
Agricultural operations use guarding to help protect employees from exposed moving components on field, farmstead, and processing equipment.
Manufacturing facilities rely on machine guarding to help protect employees from rotating parts, belts, gears, shafts, flying chips, sparks, and other hazards.
Food processing environments require guarding around rotating components, belts, gears, and other machinery hazards encountered during production.
Construction environments use machine guarding to help protect workers around exposed chains, drums, pulleys, shafts, gears, belts, and other moving components.
Woodworking operations benefit from guarding designed to help protect workers around saws, jointers, milling equipment, and other machinery.
Maritime facilities and vessels require appropriate guarding around hazardous machinery, including equipment containing belts, shafts, wheels, and other rotating parts.
Every facility has different equipment, access requirements, workflows, and hazards. NASP provides machine guarding solutions that can be configured around your specific application rather than relying solely on one-size-fits-all protection.
From wire mesh guarding to retractable accordion-style systems, our solutions can help create safer separation between employees and hazardous machinery while maintaining the access your operation requires.
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