Machinery Safety 101

On September 21^st, I par­tic­i­pated in a round table dis­cus­sion spon­sored by Manufacturing Automation magazine.

We cov­ered a lot of ground in the dis­cus­sions, touch­ing on har­mo­niza­tion of machin­ery safety stan­dards, appli­ca­tion of OHS laws and the abil­ity of man­u­fac­tur­ers and employ­ers to com­ply with require­ments, and a lot more.

We had some great peo­ple around the table for these con­ver­sa­tions. At the table were:

Wayne De L’Orme – Ontario Ministry of Labour;

Elizabeth Rankin – CSA Standards;

Dave Lawson – Advanced Motion & Controls;

Jeff Mathyssen – Electro-​​Mag;

Rick Sauer – Festo; Dan Fournier – Omron;

Lisa Bolton – Sherrard Kuzz LLP; and

myself.

The round table will be the fea­ture story in the November /​ December issue of Manufacturing Automation, and a video of the dis­cus­sions will be avail­able on their web­site. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Mary Del Ciancio, edi­tor, Manufacturing Automation. Pick up a copy, or check it out on the Manufacturing Automation web site.

+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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