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Ensuring tool safety and compliance in the workplace

Scenario: A new employee has been tasked with mounting a new abrasive grinding wheel on a grinder. You are pleased to see they are performing a ring test as they have been trained. You are not hearing much of a ring but notice the employee proceeds with mounting the wheel.

Question: Is performing the ring test the only requirement for ensuring safe use of an abrasive grinding wheel?

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Ensuring tool safety and compliance in the workplace: Answer

Answer: No. The worker must not only ensure the wheel presents the proper “ring” sound, but they should also perform a visual inspection of the wheel. Upon closer look you both find a small crack at the center of the wheel that could have cause a violent break of the wheel once placed in operation.

OSHA requires that immediately before mounting, all wheels shall be closely inspected and sounded by the user (ring test) to make sure they have not been damaged in transit, storage, or otherwise. The spindle speed of the machine shall be checked before mounting of the wheel to be certain that it does not exceed the maximum operating speed marked on the wheel. Wheels should be tapped gently with a light nonmetallic implement, such as the handle of a screwdriver for light wheels, or a wooden mallet for heavier wheels. If they sound cracked (dead), they shall not be used. This is known as the “Ring Test.” Section 1910.215(d)(1)(i) also describes the sound as a “clear metallic ring.”

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InstituteSafety & HealthGeneral Industry SafetyTool SafetyTool SafetyWhat Would you Do QuestionsEnglishAnalysisFocus AreaUSA

Ensuring tool safety and compliance in the workplace

InstituteSafety & HealthGeneral Industry SafetyTool SafetyTool SafetyWhat Would you Do QuestionsEnglishAnalysisFocus AreaUSA

Scenario: A new employee has been tasked with mounting a new abrasive grinding wheel on a grinder. You are pleased to see they are performing a ring test as they have been trained. You are not hearing much of a ring but notice the employee proceeds with mounting the wheel.

Question: Is performing the ring test the only requirement for ensuring safe use of an abrasive grinding wheel?

Click below to see answer.

Ensuring tool safety and compliance in the workplace: Answer

Answer: No. The worker must not only ensure the wheel presents the proper “ring” sound, but they should also perform a visual inspection of the wheel. Upon closer look you both find a small crack at the center of the wheel that could have cause a violent break of the wheel once placed in operation.

OSHA requires that immediately before mounting, all wheels shall be closely inspected and sounded by the user (ring test) to make sure they have not been damaged in transit, storage, or otherwise. The spindle speed of the machine shall be checked before mounting of the wheel to be certain that it does not exceed the maximum operating speed marked on the wheel. Wheels should be tapped gently with a light nonmetallic implement, such as the handle of a screwdriver for light wheels, or a wooden mallet for heavier wheels. If they sound cracked (dead), they shall not be used. This is known as the “Ring Test.” Section 1910.215(d)(1)(i) also describes the sound as a “clear metallic ring.”

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