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This is the safe drill . . .
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• New guidance designed to prevent accidents involving drilling machines as used in workshops has been published by the Health and Safety Executive.
Copies of the booklet, Drilling Machines: guarding of spindles and attachments, HS(G)44, ISBN 0 11 885466 6, are available from HMSO and booksellers, price £2.50.
Drilling machines are used in other service industries and manufacturing, points out the HSE. About 100 accidents are
investigated each year. Some of the injuries at radial and heavy-duty drilling machines have been fatal and even small bench drilling machines are capable of amputating one or more fingers if entanglement occurs.
The measures necessary to ensure safe operation include the effective safeguarding of moving parts; arrangements for the secure clamping of the workpiece; and adequate training and supervision of operatives.