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Failing to adequately tighten those chucks coupled with Inadequate guarding of machinery can result in sudden and serious incident and or injury.
Lathes are often overlooked when Risk Assessments are conducted for one reason or another.
A lathe operator’s safety depends to a large extent on working methods. It is therefore important that he or she should receive thorough theoretical and practical training to acquire skills and develop a behaviour affording the best possible safeguards.
Correct posture, correct movements, correct choice and handling of tools should become routine to such an extent that the operator works correctly even if his or her concentration is temporarily relaxed.
Important points in a training programme are an upright posture, the proper mounting and removal of the chuck and the accurate and secure fixing of workpieces. Correct holding of files and scrapers and safe working with abrasive cloth must be intensively practised.
Workers must be well informed about the hazards of injury which may be caused when gauging work, checking adjustments and cleaning lathes.
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