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The document discusses mechanical risks in occupational health, highlighting various hazards associated with machines, tools, and materials that can cause injuries. It outlines types of mechanical hazards such as shearing, crushing, and cutting, along with general safety recommendations for machine use. Additionally, it references Colombian regulations and standards related to workplace safety and the importance of personal protective equipment.
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The document discusses mechanical risks in occupational health, highlighting various hazards associated with machines, tools, and materials that can cause injuries. It outlines types of mechanical hazards such as shearing, crushing, and cutting, along with general safety recommendations for machine use. Additionally, it references Colombian regulations and standards related to workplace safety and the importance of personal protective equipment.
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MECHANICAL RISK
Occupational Health
MECHANICAL RISK
Risk is understood as
mechanical the set of
physical factors that can
give rise to an injury due to the
mechanical action of
machine elements,
tools, pieces to
work or materials
projected, solid or
fluids.
MACHINE
understands all those
sets of elements or
installations that
they transform energy with a view
to a productive function
principal or assistant.
We can differentiate the set of
a machine in two parts:
Transmission system
Operational area
Main generating sources:
Hand tools
Operating points
Equipment and elements to
Pressure
Material handling
The elementary forms of risk
mechanical are:
Danger of Danger of
shearing this trappings or of
risk is found dragging: It is due to
located at the points areas formed by two
where the blades move objects that move
of two objects the together, of which to the
close enough the minus one, broken as it is
one of another, like for the case of the cylinders of
cut material feeding, gears,
relatively soft. transmission belts,
etc.
Danger Many solids
crushing The machines in
danger zones of normal operation
crushing is they expel particles, but
mainly present among these materials is
when two objects are they can introduce objects
they move one over the other, or strange like stones,
when one moves and the branches and others, which are
another is static. launched at high speed
and that could hit
the workers
Of liquids: The
machines can also
project liquids such as
the contents in the
different systems Other types of mechanical hazards produced by machines
hydraulics, which are
are the risk of cutting or sectioning, of hooking,
impact, of drilling or punching and of friction or of
abrasion.
capable of producing
burns and reach the
eyes.
General recommendations for
security
Ensure, before its use,
about the machines and
teams do not have removed
the security devices,
enclavement and emergency.
Respect the areas
labeled as of
action of the machines
that have parts Attend to the signaling
mobiles. Do not access the of security
(pictograms) that indicates
risk areas while
the machine is in the potential risks of
functioning o the workplaces.
connected.
Use of Elements of
protection individual
(Boots, glasses, face mask,
gloves, etc)
Keep clean and
sorted the workshop and the
Know and apply the job position:
work procedures machines, soils and
as provided in the free walls of
taller. waste spills,
Check availability shavings or papers.
of sufficient lighting Communicate the existence of
in the work area. waste to the Office of
Prevention and Management
Environmental for your
removal.
Regulations
COLOMBIAN TECHNICAL GUIDE 45
GUIDE FOR IDENTIFYING HAZARDS AND RISK ASSESSMENT
RISKS IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
COLOMBIAN TECHNICAL STANDARD 5684
Protective Gloves Against Mechanical Risks
Resolution 2400 of 1979
MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY:
By which some provisions on housing, hygiene and
safety in workplaces
Resolution 2400 of 1979
TITLE III: GENERAL RULES ON PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND
BIOLOGICALS IN THE WORKPLACES
CHAPTER IV NOISES AND VIBRATIONS
Articles 95-96 talk about machines and tools.
manuals; which regulates that the collaborators have equipment for
personal protection for carrying out specific jobs.
CHAPTER VII ON ELECTRICITY, ALTERNATING, CONTINUOUS AND STATIC: Of
Articles 121-147; They talk to us about the precautions at the moment of
hot work and work with explosives
TITLE V: OF THE SAFETY COLORS.
CHAPTER I COLOR CODE: Articles 202-204 It talks about the
color names and codes, identifying the part of the machine
with a higher level of danger.
They should have the team's resume, usually developed by the
manufacturer and if the company does not have an occupational health program
it must be designed
Red color: activates stop mechanisms in dangerous machines and
stop buttons in electrical controls
Orange color: this color is used to detect dangerous parts of
equipment; whose mechanical operations can crush, hit, press,
cut etc..
Yellow: It is used to indicate hazardous areas of the equipment.
Green color: it is used to indicate the outline of the start button.
from the machine
Blue color: indicates that the machine is under repair or maintenance
that is PREVENTION
Aluminum color: it is used to paint metal surfaces exposed to
solar radiation
Ivory color: used for the moving parts of machinery (arms
of levers)
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