Machinery Safety 101

I had the great plea­sure today of par­tic­i­pat­ing in a round table dis­cus­sion that was held by Manufacturing Automation mag­a­zine at their head­quar­ters in Aurora, Ontario.

Around the table were: Elizabeth Rankin — CSA, Wayne De L’Orme — Ontario Ministry of Labour, Dave Lawson — Advanced Motion & Controls, Jeff Mathyssen — Electro-​​Mag, Rick Sauer — Festo, Dan Fournier — Omron and Lisa Bolton — Sherrard Kuzz LLP.

The depth and breadth of the exper­tise was refresh­ing, and the dis­cus­sion that ranged from stan­dards and har­mo­niza­tion to the prac­tice of safety, work­place OHS  and edu­ca­tion of engi­neers and users was stimulating.

CLB Media is plan­ning to have a video of the dis­cus­sions avail­able on their web site, as well as an arti­cle in the mag­a­zine and on the web site.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Mary Del Ciancio at CLB Media.

Watch for the arti­cle in Manufacturing Automation in their Nov/​Dec issue!

+DougNix is Managing Director and Principal Consultant at Compliance InSight Consulting, Inc. (http://​www​.com​pli​an​cein​sight​.ca) in Kitchener, Ontario, and is Lead Author and Managing Editor of the Machinery Safety 101 blog.

Doug’s work includes teach­ing machin­ery risk assess­ment tech­niques pri­vately and through Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Kitchener, Ontario, as well as pro­vid­ing tech­ni­cal ser­vices and train­ing pro­grams to clients related to risk assess­ment, indus­trial machin­ery safety, safety-​​related con­trol sys­tem inte­gra­tion and reli­a­bil­ity, laser safety and reg­u­la­tory conformity.

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