Safety topics in the engineering industry

Engineering machinery

There are many thousands of accidents and cases of ill health every year in engineering workshops. More than half of all such accidents reported to HSE involve lifting and moving goods or slips, trips and falls. Between 10 -15% of accidents involve the use of machinery. HSE has produced guidance on how to prevent or manage many of the risks.

Turning

Accidents at metalworking lathes using emery cloth

Pressing

Grinding

Safety in the use of abrasive wheels

Sawing

Safety at manually-fed pivoting-head metal-cutting circular saws

Bending

Safeguarding 3 roll bending machines

Boring

Safeguarding at horizontal boring machines

Combination metalworking machines

Safeguarding of combination metalworking machines

Vehicles

More on workplace transport

Slips and trips

HSE slips and trips microsite

Electricity

Manual handling

Preventing injuries from the manual handling of sharp edges in the engineering industry

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2023-09-12