This 2 day training program teaches participants the many aspects of punch and stamping presses. They will understand the safety aspects, components of the machines their function and how they operate, safe operation techniques, proper methods for set up, and how to manufacture good parts. An important aspect of this training is that each participant will be tested for his or her understanding of the content of the program.
Participants will learn:
- Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Employers’, supervisors’ and workers’ responsibilities
- What are the major areas of the law they need to know
- The internal responsibility system and what it means
- Definition of competency
- Right to refuse to do something that is unsafe
- Penalties under the law
- How do accidents occur?
- What are the hazards associated with running a punch press
- Major causes of accidents in press shops and how they can be avoided
- Personal Protective Equipment
- What are the minimum standards necessary in a press shop
- Why are these important
- Proper care of your PPE
- Power Presses
- Different types of power presses
- Name and identify various key components and know their function
- Clutch and brake operation
- Air counterbalance
- Ram adjustment
- Feeders and uncoilers
- Control panel functions
- Press terminology and definitions
- Shut height
- Bottoming out
- Mode controls
- Machine Guarding and Safe Guards
- Brake monitors
- Tonnage monitors
- Interlock guards
- Barrier guards
- Flywheel brakes
- Two hand controls
- Light curtains
- The importance of Pre- shift checks
- What should you look for
- When should you proceed versus stop running production
- Lock out
- What the law says
- What the CSA code says
- Practical exercise using your company’s policy
- How and when to lock out a press
- Housekeeping
- Why is it important
- How does housekeeping relate to the overall success of your safety program
- Press Set Up
- Do’s and don’ts when it comes to set-up
- Develop a proper method for setting up a press
- What could go wrong in a set up
- The importance of using proper hardware
- Hydraulic clamping
- The important or setting the ram height in relationship to the stop block
- Lead tests and their importance
- Role of the tool room
- Feeders, uncoilers and straighteners
- Perform an actual set up
- Emergency Procedures
- How do people get trapped in machinery
- What are the safe methods of getting them out of a piece of equipment
- Workers first response
- What needs to take place to be prepared
This program complies with the requirements set out in CSA Z 142-10.
Some time will be spent on the shop floor discussing and demonstrating some of the key elements of the theory portion.
This program is conducted over two days either consecutively or over a two week period. It can also be conducted in half-day increments. The maximum number of participants is 15 people.
