Often times guidance is required when designing and implementing a machines or systems safe guarding system. Assorted organizations have been created to help equipment and machine builders with this task. Below is a listing of  those organizations and some of there commonly used standards.

Occupational Health & Safety  Administration

1910.212  General requirements of all machines
1910.217 Mechanical Power Presses
OSHA Publication 3067- Concepts and techniques of machine safeguarding

American National Standards Institute

ANSI /RIA: 15.06   American National Standard for Industrial and Robot Systems - Safety Requirements
ANSI B11.19 Performance Criteria for Safeguarding

International Standard Organization

ISO 10218-2 Robotics and Robotic Devices - Safety requirements for industrial robots
ISO 12100 Safety of  Machinery - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction
ISO 13849-1 Safety of Machinery - Safety related  parts of controls systems-  Safety performance levels
ISO 13850 Safety of Machinery - Emergency Stop - Principles of design.
​ISO 13855 Safety of Machinery - Positioning of safeguards with respect to the approach speeds of parts of the human body
ISO 13856 Safety of Machinery - Pressure- sensitive protective devices
ISO 13857 Safety of Machinery - Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and lower limbs
ISO 14118 Safety of Machinery - Prevention of unexpected start-up
ISO 14119 Safety of Machinery - Interlocking devices associated with guards ​

Canadian Standards Association 

Z432 - Safeguarding of Machinery

International  Elelectrotechnical  Commision

IEC 60204 -1 Safety of Machinery - Electrical equipment of machines
IEC 61496-1 & 2 Safety of Machinery  - Electrosensitive protective equipment
IEC 62046 Safety of Machinery - Application of protective equipment to detect the presence of persons
IEC 62061 Safety of machinery - Functional safety of safety-related electrical, electronic and programmable electronic control systems