Advantages of User-Built Guards
User-built guards are sometimes necessary for a variety of reasons. They provide the following advantages:
- Often, with older machinery, they are the only practical safeguarding solution.
- They may be the only choice for mechanical power transmission apparatus in older plants, where machinery is not powered by individual motor drives.
- They permit options for point-of-operation safeguards when skilled personnel design and make them.
- They can be designed and built to fit unique and even changing situations.
- They can be installed on individual dies and feeding mechanisms.
- Design and installation of machine safeguards by plant personnel can help to promote safety consciousness in the workplace.
Disadvantages of User-Built Guards
User-built guards also have disadvantages:
- User-built guards may not conform well to the configuration and function of the machine.
- There is a risk that user-built guards may be poorly designed or built.
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5-2. Which of the following is a disadvantage of user-built machine guards?
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