Product · Safety & guarding
Machine guarding, safety fencing and enclosures
Guarding that gets removed is worse than no guarding, because everyone assumes it is there. We design it from the risk assessment and around how the job is actually done — so it protects the operator without becoming the thing they work around.
At a glance
- Types
- Perimeter fencing, fixed guards, interlocked doors, light curtains, enclosures
- Standards
- Designed on ISO 12100 risk assessment principles
- Access
- Interlocked doors, muting, key-transfer and safe-access sequences
- Controls
- Safety relay or safety PLC to the required performance level
- Lead time
- Indicative 3–8 weeks depending on scope
Overview
Machine Guarding built to your application
Almost every guard that gets defeated was designed without asking how the machine is loaded, cleaned and maintained. If reaching a jam means unbolting a panel, the panel comes off and stays off. If the maintenance access is a metre from where the fitter needs to stand, the door gets propped open.
So the risk assessment comes first, and the second question is how the job is done on a bad day. Guarding that fits both is guarding that is still in place in three years — which is the only kind that protects anyone.
Variants
Types of machine guarding we build
Robot cell perimeter fencing
Full enclosure with interlocked access, muted part entry and an internal reset.
Machine enclosure
Guarding around a single machine, with access panels for tooling change.
Fixed point-of-operation guard
Guarding the hazard itself where the machine cannot be fully enclosed.
Light curtain and area scanner guarding
Where a physical barrier would stop the operator doing the job.
Conveyor and nip-point guarding
Drive, nip and shear point protection on conveying equipment.
Acoustic and weld-screen enclosure
Noise reduction and arc screening on top of the mechanical guarding.
Specification
Technical specification
Typical build parameters. Final specifications are fixed with you at design freeze.
| Frame | Aluminium profile or MS tube, powder coated; bolted so panels can be reconfigured |
|---|---|
| Infill | Welded mesh, polycarbonate, perforated sheet or solid panel by hazard type |
| Height and gaps | Set from the reach distances for the hazard being guarded |
| Fixed guards | Fastened with tools only, so removal is deliberate and recorded |
| Interlocked doors | Coded magnetic, tongue or guard-locking switches by risk level |
| Light curtains | Resolution and safety distance calculated from the machine stopping time |
| Muting | Muting arrangements where material must pass but a person must not |
| Safety control | Safety relay or safety PLC, with dual-channel monitoring and validation |
| Access management | Key transfer, safe-access sequences and reset outside the guarded area |
| Ergonomics | Load, clean and maintenance access designed in, not left for the site team |
Scope of supply
What is included
- Machine safety risk assessment on ISO 12100 principles
- Guarding layout with reach distances and safety distances calculated
- Safety circuit design to the required performance level
- Fabrication, finishing and supply of guarding
- Installation, interlock wiring and safety validation on site
- Risk assessment, guarding drawings, safety circuit drawings and a validation record
- Operator and maintenance briefing on access and reset procedures
Need this quoted?
Send the part drawing or a photo with your volume and cycle time. An engineer responds within one working day.
Applications
Where it is used
- Robot and automation cells
- Press, machining and SPM enclosures
- Conveyor drive, nip and shear points
- Existing machines being brought up to standard
- Separating manual and automatic working areas
- Weld screening and noise enclosure
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View productFAQ
Machine Guarding: common questions
Can you guard machines you did not build?
Yes, and it is a regular scope. Existing machines being brought up to standard, or brought back to standard after guards were removed, usually start with a survey and a risk assessment rather than a quotation.
Do you supply just the fencing, or the safety circuit too?
Either. Fencing alone where your team does the electrical work. Full scope — risk assessment, guarding, interlocks, safety relay or safety PLC, validation and the documented record — where you want one party accountable for the result.
Our operators keep defeating the guard. What can be done?
Find out why first. A defeated guard is nearly always a design problem, not a discipline problem — access in the wrong place, a reset that forces someone into the cell, a jam that cannot be cleared from outside. We survey the job as it is actually done and redesign around it.
What documentation do we get?
The risk assessment, guarding drawings, safety circuit drawings, the safety validation record, and the access and reset procedures. That is the pack your safety audit will ask for.
Start a project
Hand over your production challenge.
Tell us what the line has to produce, where, and by when. We will come back with a scoped approach, a realistic timeline and the questions that matter — usually after a site visit or a drawing review.
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