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What is the primary purpose of lifting equipment?
What is the primary purpose of lifting equipment?
What skill is essential for a machine operator to identify maintenance, product, and/or operations issues?
What skill is essential for a machine operator to identify maintenance, product, and/or operations issues?
What is an important aspect of machine operation that machine operators need to perform periodically?
What is an important aspect of machine operation that machine operators need to perform periodically?
What type of skill is necessary for machine operators to communicate effectively with their team?
What type of skill is necessary for machine operators to communicate effectively with their team?
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What is a physical demand required of machine operators?
What is a physical demand required of machine operators?
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Study Notes
Workplace Equipment Hazards
- Entrapment: limbs or body parts may be caught in parts of the work equipment
- Impact: body parts or whole body can be crushed by moving parts of the equipment
- Contact: body or body parts can come into contact with hot or abrasive surfaces or sharp edges
- Entanglement: jewelry, hair, or loose clothing can be caught up inside working parts of the equipment
- Ejection: loose parts of the machinery can fly off and hit a worker or those in the vicinity of the machine
Machine Operator Responsibilities
- Monitoring and maintenance of machinery and equipment
- Training of new and junior machine operators
- Conducting routine inspections
- Setting up machines and ensuring calibration to start a production cycle
- Controlling and adjusting machine settings and speed
- Inspecting to ensure precision
- Testing operation of machines periodically
- Fixing issues that might occur during the shift
- Checking output to identify any machine-related mistakes or errors
- Keeping record of approvals and defective units of final products
- Maintaining activity logs
Machine Operator Skills
- Effective communication skills (speaking, writing, active listening, and taking instruction)
- Good leadership skills
- Effective training skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Mechanical skills
- Time management
- Attention to detail to identify maintenance, product, and/or operations issues
- Ability to stand, sit, or be in physically demanding positions for long periods of time
Lifting Equipment
- Designed to lift substantial loads and heavy objects (e.g., cranes, forklifts)
- Helps increase worker safety and saves time and effort in moving materials and objects
- Can move items horizontally or vertically
- Different types of lifting equipment are designed to do a specific lifting job
- Can move building material, pallets, or other equipment
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Identify the different types of hazards associated with workplace equipment, including entrapment and impact. Learn how to ensure safe working conditions in various industries.
