6 operator responsibility – Sterlco SPL Series Powder Hopper Loader User Manual
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Powder Hopper Loaders
Hold daily equipment inspections in addition to regular
maintenance checks. You will keep your equipment safe for
production and exhibit your commitment to safety.
Please read and use this manual as a guide to equipment safety.
This manual contains safety warnings throughout, specific to each
function and point of operation.
2-6 Operator Responsibility
The operator’s responsibility does not end with efficient
production. The operator usually has the most daily contact with
the loader and intimately knows its capabilities and limitations.
Plant and personnel safety is sometimes forgotten in the desire to
meet incentive rates, or through a casual attitude toward machinery
formed over a period of months or years. Your employer probably
has established a set of safety rules in your workplace. Those
rules, this manual, or any other safety information will not keep
you from being injured while operating your equipment.
ONLY YOU can make safety work for you by constantly thinking
about what is safe and what is not. It is often the “just once” that
an operator reaches into a loader to remove material and it results
in serious injury.
Learn and always use safe operation. Cooperate with co-workers
to promote safe practices. Immediately report any potentially
dangerous situation to your supervisor or appropriate person.
REMEMBER:
• NEVER place your hands or any part of your body in any
dangerous location.
• NEVER operate, service, or adjust the loader without
appropriate training and first reading and understanding this
manual.
• NEVER try to pull material out of the loader with your hands
while it is running!
• Before you start the loader check the following:
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Remove all tools from the blender;
• Be sure no objects (tools, nuts, bolts, clamps, bars) are
laying in the metering or mixing area;