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The Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) members are the Industry’s leading suppliers of fixed protective guarding products designed to protect personnel, equipment, and inventory in industrial facilities. Mission: ProGMA promotes safety, security, and guarding for people, products, and facilities. ProGMA educates about protective barrier and guarding solutions through industry standards and best practices. Vision Statement: To be the authoritative resource for the best practices, standards, and applications of protective barrier, guarding solutions and associated technologies for industrial facilities. Protective Guarding Manufacturing Association member companies meet regularly to review and discuss industrial safety hazards and to promote specific guarding solutions for people, products, and facilities. ProGMA programs include: Development of educational materials for the promotion of proper protective guarding methods. Development, maintenance, and publishing of industry standards and specifications. Promotion of the features, advantages, and benefits of properly used protective guarding equipment. Development and promotion of standard nomenclature for protective guarding products. Dissemination of information regarding relevant legislation and international trade. Development, review and revision of product standards. Confidential collection and reporting of market statistics for different types of guarding products. Protective Guarding is a fixed barrier or device, used in manufacturing, distribution, and other industrial facilities to protect personnel, equipment, and inventory from hazards present in the workplace. Protective Guarding items range from fixed objects installed around articulating equipment, machinery, or material storage areas such as safety fence, netting, guard rail, and bollards to specialized switches designed to stop machine operation as well as safeguarding through visual or auditory aids.
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The Facilities Manager used off-the-shelf eye-bolts and wire cabling to create a simple off-set system. Eye-bolts were bolted to the holes in the rack uprights. Wire cabling was threaded through the eye-bolts to create a perimeter around each bay, off-set approximately 4-1/2” from the rack beams. Cable ties were used to attach the plastic netting to the perimeter system.
For some people, job safety is one of those back-of-the-mind things; for others it is a way of life. Imagine a tragic accident in which a forklift retrieving a pallet from a high shelf inadvertently dislodges the pallet on the shelf behind it. The unseen pallet falls from its shelf and strikes a worker in the adjacent aisle.