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Check your knowledge with a machine guarding quiz

Do you think you've got more machine guarding knowledge than most? Try our free quiz

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Why take a machine guarding quiz

Machine guarding is a critical safety practice for all businesses – but it can be particularly hazardous in the manufacturing and construction industries. Machinery can cause serious injuries if someone is struck by it or caught in its moving parts, so it’s important that workers are aware of the dangers and know how to properly guard machines. Regulations around machine guarding can be confusing, so we’ve put together this quiz to help your team understand the basics. The quiz covers the different types of machine guarding, such as barriers, shields, and guards, and explains when they are required. It also covers lockout/tagout procedures, which are essential for preventing injuries when machinery is being serviced or repaired. With this quiz, your team can be sure that they are meeting all the requirements for machine guarding and keeping themselves and others safe in the workplace.

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Deploy a machine guarding quiz to your team

With this machine guarding quiz, you can identify what parts of your organization’s machine guarding plan your team members can’t recall and close these knowledge gaps so your team can remain safe while working with industrial machinery. This knowledge is critical for protecting the health and safety of your team, as it teaches them how to identify hazards, complete a machine risk assessment, and prevent injuries. All of these are invaluable skills and give employees the potential to not only work safely with industrial machinery but also avoid costly and dangerous accidents. With this machine guarding training reinforcement in place, the overall safety of your business and the employees within it can be much greater. And, not only can reinforcing this essential training save lives, it also helps ensure that your organization is compliant with government regulations. With regular machine guarding quizzes, your team will be more confident with any machine-related incident or emergency. Plus, you’ll also get access to your team’s results ​​so you can understand individual workers’ knowledge gaps, as well as overall performance once the quiz is complete. For teams that require more regular refresher training, you’ll also have the option to deliver the machine guarding quiz to your teams in bite-sized chunks, at regular intervals. This allows your team to reinforce their knowledge at their own pace, making them more likely to recall what they learned sooner than if they were to have completed a one-off training program. And the best part is that your teams can access this machine guarding quiz on their preferred device whenever they have 5 minutes to spare – whether that’s on their commute, in between tasks, or before they finish up for the day.

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Example questions from our machine guarding quiz

Question 1

Aside from machine guards workers are provided a set of PPE as protection against nonmechanical hazards

Question 3

What are physical barriers in the context of machine guarding

Question 5

Which of the following statements are safety training requirements

Question 2

What are the different hazard types we need to guard against

Question 4

Some examples of safety devices in the context of machine guarding are automatic doors and sensoractivated alarms