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Innovation & Design

Revolutionise Change Outs with Geographe’s Patented Ball Stud Removal Tool (BSRT) Kits.

This initiative represents a significant cost and time reduction

while also improving safety for our maintainers.

Engineered Solutions

We collaborate with clients to significantly reduce maintenance time, improve safety, and decrease up-front and whole-of-life operating costs.

Enhanced Performance Parts

Geographe Enhanced Performance parts can provide measurable gains towards machine productivity and uptime.

With over 1000 parts enhanced to suit Drills, Dozers, Loaders, Excavators and Trucks, Geographe can help your site meet it's KPI's.

www.geographe.com.au

www.geographe.com.au

Innovation & Design

Revolutionise Change Outs with Geographe’s Patented Ball Stud Removal Tool (BSRT) Kits.

This initiative represents a significant cost and time reduction

while also improving safety for our maintainers.

Engineered Solutions

We collaborate with clients to significantly reduce maintenance time, improve safety, and decrease up-front and whole-of-life operating costs.

Engineered Solutions

We collaborate with clients to significantly reduce maintenance time, improve safety, and decrease up-front and whole-of-life operating costs.

Enhanced Performance Parts

Geographe Enhanced Performance parts can provide measurable gains towards machine productivity and uptime.

With over 1000 parts enhanced to suit Drills, Dozers, Loaders, Excavators and Trucks, Geographe can help your site meet it's KPI's.

02/17/2024 10:36:20

COMPANY INSIGHT

09 Golden Tips for Conveyor Safety

The fluidity of your system flow goes far beyond vanity.

hile each industry and each country has its own set of rules specific to working with belt conveyors, safety best practices are very common. Evidently, it is essential to identify the specific situation of a given plant.

That means you can unload truck loads faster and get drivers back on the road more quickly.

Martin provides a wide variety of safety products and accessories for protecting workers from hazards and risks. The following list brings together the 09 top suggestions of practices that management should specify, and that employees should follow in order to improve safety around belt conveyors:

Work as a team: Report all near dangerous hazards and, remember, ANY employee can stop ANY job on ANY machine at ANY time
Authorization needed: All employees must be authorized and trained to perform the work, and no one is allowed to work alone
Appropriate uniform and personal protective equipment (PPE): ALWAYS wear safety boots, helmet, eye and hearing protection. Use site-specific PPE and do not wear jewellery, loose clothing or long hair
LOTO/BOTO: ALWAYS perform lockout, lockout, tagout, and test procedures
SLAM (STOP/LOOK/ANALYZE/MANAGE): STOP: Think about the task. LOOK: Identify the risks. ANALYZE: Appropriate tools, parts and skills. MANAGE: Take the necessary steps to confirm that work is being done safely
Respect the conveyor: Do not interrupt the plane of a moving conveyor with your body or tools
Train yourself: Meet the job, read and understand the instructions, use the correct tools, do not overload conveyors or equipment
Safety: Keep guards in place and restricted areas blocked off and locks in place. When you see something, report what you saw. Be aware of overload and traffic hazards
Clean and Organized: Clean only when it is safe to clean. Remove trash, tools and discarded material. A place for everything and everything in its place.

It is important to remember that safety management begins in the corporate and organizational culture of the company. Today, however, there is no longer any doubt that a well-established and supported safety culture results in cleaner, safer and more productive operations. This, consequently, is reflected in more profitable results, better community relations and a happier work environment.

Our experts can help you make your conveyor operation cleaner, more efficient and, above all, safer. Get in touch with us so we can carry out a diagnosis on your plant.

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Contact information

Martin Engineering Australia
20 Ern Harley Drive
Burleigh Heads, QLD 422

Web: www.martin-eng.com.au

Email: mea@martin-eng.com

Tel: + 61 1300 627 364

02/17/2024 10:36:20

Working Safely around Conveyors

The productivity of a belt conveyor is essential for the success and profitability of an operation. However, if it is not accompanied by concern for the safety of everyone involved, the process of handling bulk material will be a failure, especially from the point of view of good ESG practices.

Martin Engineering's history begins with concern for the health and safety of employees in the workplace. The idealization of the Vibrolator® was due to a concern of Edwin F. Peterson to reduce the risk of accidents for workers in his current workplace. Since then, the issue of safety has been part of Martin's mission around the world, particularly around belt conveyors.

In addition to manufacturing products that move bulk materials and protect employees from potential hazards, Martin is an internationally recognized authority on safety. Whether by an organizational culture that has the integrity of workers as a pillar, or by publishing the book Foundations™ For Conveyor Safety, a manual with more than 500 pages that addresses the best global practices for safer handling of bulk materials.

The main hazards related to belt conveyors are mechanical, including moving components that can cause pinch damage at pinch points, grazes and burns, and pinch zones that can cause damage from cuts and crushes.

All these dangers can and should be avoided with training, preparation and safety precautions. Because of the sheer volume and size of material loads, the speed of transport, and the amount of energy they consume, conveyors have proven to be a leading cause of industrial accidents, including serious injuries and even mortality.

Preventable by the right choices

Quality products, properly installed and maintained, are essential for a safe work environment.

For example, realigning belts is one of the highest risk activities involving conveyors. When alignment is attempted on a moving belt, workers can get hands, tools or clothing caught in machinery, be struck by components or be pulled into pinch points where they may lose a limb or be crushed. Utilizing track-mounted impact and support cradles and troughing idlers will simplify installation and maintenance.

Most importantly, don’t take chances around conveyor belts. Don’t perform work that will expose you to pinch points, like clearing material from a roller, while the belt is moving. Only work on a conveyor that is properly locked and tagged out.

The use of skirt boards, such as Martin ApronSeal™, will limit the amount of material that falls from conveyors. The skirt boards should be placed at “high-risk” areas along the beltline, where these types of accidents are more likely to occur. Also, installing Martin Conveyor Guards to prevent inadvertent contact with pinch points and Martin Inspection Doors to inspect and access chutes and other enclosures is a valuable practice.