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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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BRANDS & PRODUCTS
Centurion™
RageWire®
FordLogan
AisleGuard
RageWire® Robotic Guarding
FordLogan Woven Wire Partitions
AisleGuard Industrial Guardrail, Bollards & Rack Guards
BeastWire®
BeastWire® Mesh Partitions
BeastWire® Mezzanine Railing
BeastWire® Pallet Rack Safety Systems
BeastWire® Storage Lockers
Centurion™ Pallet Rack Repair
TRADE SHOWS
National mining company and minor metals supplier adds heavy-duty pallet rack safety enclosures to protect finished goods prior to being shipped. Inventory management and control are a critical aspect of their day-to-day operations as many metals are rare and extremely valuable.
Moving machine parts have the potential to cause severe workplace injuries, such as crushed fingers or hands, amputations, burns, blindness, or can even prove to be fatal. The proper safeguarding is essential for protecting workers from these otherwise preventable injuries. When the operation of a machine or accidental contact can injure the operator or others in the vicinity, the hazards must be eliminated or controlled.
An international producer of surgical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and vision care products required machine guarding for two processing cells at its Huntington, WV facility. The customer manufacturers, packages and supplies a world leading brand of intraocular lens out of the facility, requiring the highest quality and optimization of process controls.
A national chain of department stores recently upgraded the level of security at its New Jersey distribution center surrounding the packaging operation of its fashion jewelry and watches. Given that much of the jewelry is small in size, it can be carried or passed out of the work area relatively undetected.
