Incentive to bypass protective devices
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Approximately 37% of all protective devices on metalworking machines are bypassed by defeating.
This substantially increases the potential hazard and the likelihood and severity of accidents, and has already resulted in fatal accidents. Reliable statistics, data and facts on the subject of "bypassing of protective devices on machinery" appeared for the first time in 2006 in the HVBG Report of the same name.
The bypassing of protective devices can be avoided completely [...]