Pedastal Fan Safety - Does Anyone Come Across Such An Issue?

Dear All
Have a look into the attached file. Does anyone of you faced such an issue?
What is the best possible less expensive practical solution to safe guard these pedestal fans?
Inviting your views and suggestions please.

Dear Dipilji ,
In my view covering with wire Mesh was best possible control . Otherwise fingers may came in contact with the rotating fan blade through the protective cage which may lead to amputation
there are cases in industries where worker get injured while trying to redirect the air flow of a rotating pedestal fan.
Thanks
Abhay

The pedestal fan should be secured properly at its base to avoid toppling over.
Use of wire mesh as advised by learned member can be considered.
Position the fan in such a way that people do not go near the fan.
The earthing,electrical wiring needs to be in good condition so that no electrical shocks take place on touching it.
Signboard warning people not to put hands etc can be thought off.

Hello Dipil,
WHAT'S the issue vis-a-vis the PPT?
Abhay & Nathrao have PRESUMED the visible aspects of the situation as they saw in the PPT & gave their suggestions.
Is the problem DIFFERENT? Your mention of the words 'safe guard these pedestal fans' CAN also mean ways to prevent THEFT.
Pl give the complete details so that you get the right & actionable suggestions.
Rgds,
TS

Dear All
Thanks for sharing your inputs.
I am trying to provide the guard as shown in the attached pictures as a solution to the query raise.
@TS: Issue was with the guarding only. The existing mesh was allowing people hand/fingers reaching to the rotating parts.

Please look at positioning of fans on the wall and in addition to this put the safety mesh as suggested in the earlier messages. This would help in both the ways, avoiding of contacts with the objects/persons and protect the fan cover in case of incidents.

Dear Dipil and Abhay

I very much regret to say that somehow not happy with the approach.

This is an issue if problem still persists with modern pedestal fans. There are certain principles in machine guarding. In the case of pedestal fan blade guards, in the past the gap was wider and fingers could have come in contact with the rotating blades. Manufacturers were made answerable. Of late please check again.

Allowable machine guarding clearances for other than points of operation now:

Within two inches: openings allow access to less than ½ inch diameter.
Within four inches: openings allow access to no larger than ½ inch diameter.
Four to fifteen inches: excludes objects larger than 2 inches dia. or guard has 1 inch wide slats.
Fifteen to twenty inches: Guardrails.


There may be thousands of fans is use. It is the absolute responsibility of the manufacturer to ensure safety of the user of their products. We at the user end are not supposed to modify every fan for ensuring safety.

As responsible professionals or even as customers of the product it is our legitimate right to demand absolute safety from the product we purchase from the market. In case of this pedestal fan we purchased is suspected to be unsafe in any manner it is our duty to bring it up to the manufacturer or supplier and demand a permanent design change which will be the solution.

Providing a make shift arrangement in one fan you use does not solve the problems with thousands of fans ignorant people use.

Hope if think deeply you may join me with this approach.

Regards,

Kesava Pillai

Dear Sir ,
I am positively agree with your thoughts ... I always try to think safety with large picture but this time I failed and realized that there is a lot of scope for my improvement while making safety recommendations. For above case , on the basis of available information and condition I just suggested ... But after reading your comments I realize
Thanks again sir.
Abhay

Dear Sir
Thanks.
These fans was very old one. So was trying to find out the best way out to resolve the issue and come up with the cheap and best solution to the problem. We even tried to provide wire mesh over the existing guards so as to protect them.
Your suggestions would be really helpful for the new procurement. We can ask the manufacturer to supply the safe pedestal fans. This I will take up with procurement team, so far not did the same.

Dear All,
Good Morning!
Myself Vishal. I would like to share about some corrective action to prevent pedestal fan accident. In our industry, we had faced some serious accident through pedestal fans. to prevent such kind of accident we have installed pedestal fan on wall mounted by modification.