ANSI B151.15 : 1985

1 Scope, Purpose, and Application
    1.1 Scope
    1.2 Purpose
    1.3 Application
          1.3.1 New Installations
          1.3.2 Former Installations
2 Referenced American National Standards
3 Definitions
    3.1 Builder
    3.2 Clamp
    3.3 Employer
    3.4 Guard
          3.4.1 Fixed Guard
          3.4.2 Movable Guard
    3.5 Maintenance Personnel
    3.6 Mold
    3.7 Operator
    3.8 Plastic
    3.9 Feed Opening
    3.10 Point of Operation
    3.11 Operator Control Station
    3.12 Safety Gate or Door
    3.13 Shall
    3.14 Should
    3.15 Sign or Plate
4 Care - Responsibility for
    4.1 Instructions
          4.1.1 Builder
          4.1.2 Used Equipment Seller
          4.1.3 Rebuilder or Modifier
    4.2 Training of Maintenance Personnel
    4.3 Inspection and Maintenance Records
5 Construction, Rebuilding, and Modification
    5.1 Responsibility
          5.1.1 Builder
          5.1.2 Rebuilder or Modifier
    5.2 Guarding of Point of Operation
          5.2.1 Safety Gate
          5.2.2 Electrical Interlock
          5.2.3 Secondary Interlock
          5.2.4 Emergency Stop Buttons
    5.3 General Guarding
          5.3.1 Guards
          5.3.2 Feed Openings
          5.3.3 Electrical Systems
    5.4 Signs and Plates
          5.4.1 New Installation
          5.4.2 Former Installations
    5.5 Safety Color Code
          5.5.1 Red
          5.5.2 Yellow
6 Operation - Instruction to Operators, Set-Up, and
    Supervisory Personnel
7 Signs and Plates
    7.1 General
    7.2 Wording of Signs
    7.3 Location of Signs

Establishes safety requirements for the construction, care, and use of all extrusion blow molding machines that melt (plasticize) plastic materials, including thermoplastic or rubber, and form a parison that is blown into the shape of a mold held in some form of a clamping press, whether actuated either mechanically, electrically, pneumatically, hydraulically, or by any combination of these.