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Best Practices for Conveyor Safety

See what the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) has to say about conveyor-specific safety programs and materials that are available for your facility.

Best Practices for Conveyor Safety
Best Practices for Conveyor Safety

Manufacturers and warehouses who are looking for conveyor safety and training materials beyond the manufacturer’s installation and maintenance manuals, or the standard OSHA lockout tagout procedures, can look to the ANSI document “Safety Standard for Conveyors and Related Equipment” or to CEMA, the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association, which started in 1933.

Boyce Bonham, Chief Engineer at Hytrol Conveyor Co. and a long-standing member of CEMA, spoke on Tuesday about conveyor safety in a new Midwest WERCouncil-sponsored webinar “Conveyor Safety: Best Practices in Operation & Safety.”

CEMA’s safety program is multi-faceted, and consists of best practices documents, numerous safety labels that are ANSI Z535 compliant (with placement guidelines), Conveyor Safety LabelCEMA Conveyor Safety Labela safety poster that is designed to supplement user’s in-house safety program, and a unit handling safety video, which was created to supplement user’s in-house safety training program.


The safety best practices documents include:

  • Design and Safe Application of Crossovers
  • E-Stop Application Guide
  • Design and Application of Spill Guarding
  • Supplemental Guarding
  • Personnel Barriers for Elevated Conveyors

The safety poster includes twelve safety rules and lessons for safe operation and maintenance of conveyors in the facility and is meant to be posted in work areas where employees can review them on a regular basis.

What are the twelve conveyor safety rules?

1.     Do not climb, sit, stand, walk, ride or touch the conveyor at any time.

2.     Do not perform maintenance on conveyor until electrical, air, hydraulic, and gravity energy sources have been locked out or blocked.

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