Curbing the killer conveyors

摘要

A recent injury has highlighted the fact that using the wrong grease on a conveyor can turn it into a potential killer. Recently, a steel worker was injured when an inclined conveyor ran backwards, out of control, and a fluid coupling in the drive train exploded, spreading shrapnel and hot hydraulic oil everywhere. It should never have happened. Accidents like this are completely avoidable -as investigators were to discover later. The accident was caused by an unfortunate mistake during routine lubrication that could easily have been avoided. Preventing the same thing from happening again elsewhere is simple - it boils down knowing the difference between your MPs and your EPs, and we're not talking here about Members of Parliament. We're talking grease.