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  • OSHA Training Institute Course Catalog Search. OSHA. Searches training and education courses provided by OSHA Training Institute in occupational safety and health for federal and state compliance officers, state consultants, other federal agency personnel, and the private sector.
  • Point-of-Operation Safeguarding – Mechanical Power Presses. OSHA, (1996, April), 1 MB PDF, 29 pages. Provides instruction guides, checklists and other information to assist in identifying and eliminating hazards associated with mechanical power presses.
  • Checklist for Abrasive Wheel Equipment Grinders. OSHA, (1999).
  • Machine Guarding. OSHA, 3 MB ZIP*. Designed to assist trainers conducting OSHA 10-hour General Industry outreach training for workers. Since workers are the target audience, the material emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, and control — not standards. No attempt has been made to treat the topic exhaustively.
Other Resources
  • Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). Accredited Standards Developing Organization (SDO) for the ANSI B11 series of standards for machine tools.
  • Machine Guarding/Machine Shop Safety. Oklahoma State University (OSU), Environmental Health and Safety Online Safety Library.
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