Bypassing guards and protective devices on machinery can lead to serious and fatal accidents. Some of the most frequent incentives included the necessity to remove safeguards to perform activities (e.g. adjustment, troubleshooting, maintenance, and installation), a lack of visibility, failures, and a lack of reliability of the safeguards. This journal analysis suggests classifying the incentives into five categories: ergonomics, productivity, machine or safeguarding, behavior, and corporate climate. The solutions, which are related to the design, manufacturing, and usage phases, are classified into technical, organizational, and individual factors. These are all factors that influence the prevention of bypassing. All the machines in the industry premises were assessed mechanically, electrically and in terms of environmental aspects. The factors including safety switches such as limit switches and interlocks were also assessed for all the machines. Hazards of each machine were identified at the end of the assessment. The identifies hazards are eliminated by providing machine guards and training the workers to avoid bypassing the safety sensors, switches and interlocking devices which have potential to cause high risk accidents.

Keywords:         Safeguard,         bypass,          switches,          sensors,  interlocking devices.