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A packaging firm has been fined after a worker severed the tip of a finger on a machine where a safety guard had been deliber- ately disabled. The
nesting machine, which
makes food packaging cartons, had been running with a tam- pered interlock for at least five months prior to the incident at Alexir Packaging Limited, on En- terprise Way, Edenbridge, Kent, on 9 September 2011.
The Surrey-based company was prosecuted on 15 October by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for allowing the machine to oper- ate unchecked in an unsafe state. Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court heard that the worker, who does not want to be named, was mak- ing cartons when he noticed they were being folded in the wrong place.
In attempting to rectify the problem he trapped his right in- dex finger between some rollers
and a belt in the machine, with the moving parts slicing through the tip.
He was unable to work for five days and initially suffered with restricted use of the finger before making a subsequent recovery. HSE established that an inter- lock guard on the machine had been defeated by moving a sen- sor to allow it to stay open. Magistrates were told that regu- lar checks should have identified this problem, and that had the guard been in place the incident could have been prevented. They also heard that it was unclear whether workers had received any formal training on using machine guarding, and that a risk assessment for the nesting machine did not reference the need to only operate it with inter- locked guard in use. Alexir Pack- aging Limited, of High Street, Rip- ley, Surrey, was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £2,985 in costs.
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FORTHCOMING seminars from the Processing and Packag- ing Machinery Association will cover machine guarding, re- cruitment and robotic safety.
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Machinery Guarding takes place on 24 October at the Carlton Hotel at Dublin Air- port., providing an overview of legislative and regulatory changes. Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC includes machine guarding on the indicative list of safety products that require CE Marking. Companies who want to add additional guard- ing need to be aware of their responsibilities under the Ma- chinery Directive especially if they are making and installing the guarding themselves. This seminar promises to explain all.
HR for Non-HR Managers is on 14 November at the Mar- riott Hotel in Northampton. This training course promises to help you to: Identify the HR role and responsibilities of a
modern manager, develop a clear understanding of the cur- rent employment legislation (an overview of the Equality Act 2010) and the protected characteristics, and identify what ‘discrimination in the workplace’ actually means, The seminar Robotic Safety
in Automation is on 3 Decem- ber at Durham University. As the associated blurb puts it: “The functional safety of con- trol systems is one of the buzz subjects currently within ma- chinery safety, with debates on the relative importance of circuit architecture, selection of components and the safety integrity of components and systems.
This seminar will give a practical approach to using EN ISO 13849-1 and show the ben- efits of using freely available software tools.
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