Wearing jewelry, gloves, or loose-fitting clothing around moving parts can lead to injuries.
Remove any jewelry such as necklaces, rings, ear rings, and wristwatches. Jewelry should not be worn within an arm’s length of rotating or operating machinery, tools, or electrical switch areas.
Why you shouldn't wear jewelry while at work:
- Dangling jewelry may catch on protruding pieces of equipment, injuring the wearer.
- Should it catch on an operating control, the jewelry could start machinery, creating danger to others as well as the wearer.
- When jewelry catches in machinery, the wearer can be pulled into the machine or caught against it, unable to reach the controls.
- A necklace caught in moving equipment can choke the wearer or inflict neck injury.