Ansi standards combined with european hazard ranking methods provide plastic web processors with powerful tools for enhancing workplace safety

摘要

A set of four safety standards for film, sheet, coating & laminating, and plastic web winding machinery has been developed under the sponsorship of SPI, and accepted as consensus standards by ANSI. The author reviews some of the more significant requirements of these standards. The standards represent an excellent tool against which to audit existing processign lines to identify hazards to personnel.