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Posted By Clare Wilkinson
Can anybody give me any guidelines on using a guillotine in an office for cutting paper, card and plastic. It seems that it has been around for ages and the supplies did'nt give any training. All I can think of is a risk assessment.
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Posted By Steve Appleton
Hi Clare,
The Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations requires that dangerous parts of work equipment are guarded if practicable (and if not, the risk of injury is to be controlled by some other means).
Modern paper cutters have a concealed circular blade that is drawn along the paper to be cut, thus eliminating the need for the older type of guillotine with the open blade you drawn down onto the paper.
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Posted By Ken Taylor
The better 'old style' true guillotines have a blade guard that protects for the whole travel of the blade and a springy bar that holds down the paper while it is being cut. You store it with the blade down; position the paper after lifting the blade; hold the paper in place by holding down the bar and use the other hand to pull down the blade - thereby keeping both hands away from the cutting area.
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