Anti-tie down required for air cylinder presses?
Anti-tie down required for air cylinder presses?
(OP)
Are two-hand "anti-tie down" controls required for simple mead/bimba type air cylinder (3" to 6" cylinder diameters @ 100psi) presses in the US (OSHA)?
Right now we have a few simple staking machines from 20+ years ago that do have 2 hand controls but each of the buttons "could" be tied/taped down.
And if so do you know the specific section of OSHA that calls that out specifically for air cylinder presses.
Right now we have a few simple staking machines from 20+ years ago that do have 2 hand controls but each of the buttons "could" be tied/taped down.
And if so do you know the specific section of OSHA that calls that out specifically for air cylinder presses.





RE: Anti-tie down required for air cylinder presses?
http://search.usa.gov/search?affiliate=usdoloshapu...
If you review the PDF document you will discover that OSHA recognizes the valuable contributions of national consensus standards such as "ANSI B11.19-2010 Performance Requirements for Safeguarding" and "ANSI B11.TR3-2000 Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction".
Sorry but there is no easy answer or short cut to your question but what would resolve it is doing the risk assessment and based on that the required safe guarding necessary to make the press safe.
David Baird
Sr Controls Designer
EET degree.
www.afctool.com
RE: Anti-tie down required for air cylinder presses?
How in the risk assessment do evaluate the "laziness" or "stupidity" of your operators? ;)
RE: Anti-tie down required for air cylinder presses?
Your comment about laziness and stupidity concerns me. Safety should be your first concern. Your operators may even have some good suggestions of how to solve this issue. Lazy and stupid operators are doing exactly what management allows to happen. Anybody taping dual palm buttons down should have been seen by the direct supervisor and then been written up.
RE: Anti-tie down required for air cylinder presses?
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Any operator defeating the dual button setup WILL be dealt with immediately.
I just keep seeing "anti-tie down" mentioned in all the standards/air press catalogs,etc... and couldn't find in the OSHA manual whether they were mandated or not for a simple air press or if regular dual buttons is still OK if that's all it takes to ensure safety.. I have NO problem including them IF they are needed.
I was really just expecting it to be mandated and couldn't find where it was...
RE: Anti-tie down required for air cylinder presses?