Safe Distance for Machinery Actuators: Is After-Reach Speed a Constant?

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• Personal Author:
  Jensen R ; Stobbe T
• Description:
  A common setup for industrial machines is to install a pair of actuator buttons a safe distance from the point of operation. Safety codes specify that minimum distance by assuming a constant hand speed of 1.6 m/s. To examine the adequacy of that value, a simulated power press with a moving ram was set up for measuring actual hand speed for three placements of the buttons. For each placement, a randomized complete block experiment with nine students provided after-reach hand speed data. Results indicated that after-reach hand speed is not a constant because it varies both with placement of the buttons and distance within placement. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Biomechanical Phenomena Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: After-reach Speed Biomechanics Equipment Design Industrial Equipment Industrial Safety Machine Guarding Machine Operators Machine Safeguarding Power Press Power Presses Safe Distance

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• ISBN:
  9783319419282
• ISSN:
  2194-5357
• Publisher:
  Springer
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; Montana ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  321-331
• Volume:
  491
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064059
• Citation:
  Advances in safety management and human factors: proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida. Arezes P ed. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016 Jul; 491:321-331
• Contact Point Address:
  Roger Jensen, Safety, Health, and Industrial Hygiene Department, Montana Tech, Butte, MT 59701, USA
• Email:
  rjensen@mtech.edu
• Editor(s):
  Arezes P
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Montana Technological University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Advances in safety management and human factors: proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:114d7e41d72229f98ca8cf165b6eb3f191dc70b90ce8808e1d5554772a62c7de3cadcfb2009792a93bb936b98c1d4a30c204112710f75f1eaadf5535c7b4ad24
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222585/cdc_222585_DS1.pdf
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