Power Chucks: Staying safe is your responsibility!

Under UK Government legislation: The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) These Regulations, often abbreviated to PUWER, place duties on people and companies who own, operate, or control work equipment. PUWER also places responsibilities on businesses and organisations whose employees use work equipment, whether owned by them or not.

PUWER requires that equipment provided for use at work is:

• suitable for the intended use.

• safe for use, maintained in a safe condition, and inspected to ensure it is correctly installed and does not subsequently deteriorate.

• used only by people who have received adequate information, instruction, and training.

• accompanied by suitable health and safety measures, such as protective devices and controls. These will normally include guarding, emergency stop devices, adequate means of isolation from sources of energy, clearly visible markings, and warning devices.

• used in accordance with specific requirements, for mobile work equipment and power presses.

As a machinist and engineer, you don’t need us to tell you that inadequately lubricating or maintaining your power chucks is a recipe for disaster. It can reduce grip force by up to 50%, diminish part accuracies, cause an inability to maintain concentricity, and decrease tool and chuck life. Not things you want happening during production as they’ll greatly affect your productivity and costs.

Frequently greasing and lubricating your chucks, with good quality chuck grease, along with maintaining your chucks will not only improve the safety when using your equipment but will also result in trouble-free performance.

You can avoid injury and machine damage, by ensuring gripping forces at all rotational speeds are checked and maintained regularly thus avoiding unnecessary accidents due to part ejection.

Fortunately, Samchully Chuck Grease is the perfect solution to keeping your power chucks safe and working to peak performance. It keeps your chucks lubricated and functioning how they should TEC Chuck Grease – Thame Workholding

‘Grease’ is the word 😎