Safety

The Peerless Group goes to great length to design machines that meet or exceed the current National and International standards for safety, but any machine or process can be unsafe if proper education of those who operate it doesn’t occur.

We urge owners of Peerless equipment to have on-going education and safety programs in your facilities. On this page you can download at no cost information to help you develop these internal programs. As an alternative, you can contact our Service group to provide a proposal for Peerless to present a custom – designed program for you.

Lockout Tagout Is the Law

There are Federal Laws in the United States regarding Lockout Tagout (LOTO) procedures for process machinery to help assure the safety of those who interact with them.  The Peerless Group designs products with this in mind, but it is the responsibility of the bakery to develop and implement LOTO procedures for specific machines and processing that are being used in the bakery.

We are very interested in the safety of your personnel will gladly answer any questions that you may have regarding your LOTO program.  Click here for a  document authored by NIOSH which can help you establish your program today!

We also urge you to visit http://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/lototraining/index.htm for more information about implementing your LOTO program.

PEERLESS GROUP SAFETY NOTICES

Peerless PBD Hydraulic Bread Divider:

Certain Peerless PBD Hydraulic Bread Dividers produced between 1998 and 2006 have a potential for injury at the top of the Division Box if not used as designed.  The passive safety system can be by-passed by climbing up a ladder, or onto the machine during operation and reaching into the hopper posing a risk of personal injury.

Because the possibility of defeating the designed safety has come to our attention, we have designed an additional guard that can be placed over the Division Box.  This guard is available from the Peerless Parts and Service Group, or can be made locally by downloading the following drawings and installation drawings:

Regardless of where you purchase this safety device, Peerless strongly recommends that you install something to limit this potential danger while continuing to utilize the factory-equipped passive safety system.  As always, train your operators in the safe operation of process equipment.