VB-4 Milling Centers Installation Manual
Installation manual (PUB 808B) for Milwaukee VB-4 milling centers or machining centers equipped with KT-Gemini-E control system. Published by Kearney & Trecker Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Document also includes safety guidelines (PUB-578, First Edition May 1974) emphasizing that safety is everybody's business when operating metal cutting machine tools.
Table of Contents:
- The employer is responsible for selecting competent and qualified employees
- Manuals are provided with each machine tool
- Guards and shields are to be in place at all times
- Operators must be forbidden from changing workpieces or performing other work close to a revolving cutter
- When contaminants are released to the atmosphere as a result of machining, an exhaust system is recommended
- All employees should be aware of first aid facilities and be encouraged to use same
- Employees should be encouraged to report to their supervisors any hazardous condition on the machine tool or in the immediate area
- Air hoses — it is recommended that air hoses not be available for use around the machine tool
- Levels of illumination in the immediate area of the machine tool should comply with National Standards
- Fire prevention must be practiced and fire protection available to prevent loss of life, personal injury and to protect property
- Protective footwear — safety shoes afford good protection against rolling objects, dropping heavy objects, accidentally kicking sharp edged materials
- Eye protection — eye protection devices must be considered as optical instruments and they should be carefully selected, fitted and used
- The employer must insist that his employees study this safety information and practice safety
- Users must have available adequate lifting facilities capable of lifting within the safe load limits; also appropriate slings and hitches
- Every floor opening resulting from the machine tool installed in pits or below floor level should be covered with a material of proper strength with non-slip features
- When machines are installed above floor level and a platform is built around the machine tool, the platform must be constructed of materials of proper strength with non-slip features of the walking surfaces
- Management personnel have the responsibility to alert operating personnel of any unsafe practice they may observe
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Document Details
- Format
- Pages
- 59
- Size
- 22.8 MB
- Category
- Machine Tools