The machine guarding standard, 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR 1910.212), always seems to make OSHA’s Top 10 Most Frequently Cited list. In 2015 it again made list, coming in at number 10. While there’s no single reason the OSHA guarding standard is so often cited by safety inspectors, a few regularly occurring issues give insight:
˜ Equipment is old, and somewhere along the way the guarding was removed, misplaced or damaged