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CSA Z1002 Public Review — Only 15 days left!

Posted by on March 4, 2011 Comments Off

Today is Friday 4-​​Mar-​​2011, mark­ing 45 days into the pub­lic review period for CSA Z1002 — Occupational Health and Safety Hazard Identification and Elimination and Risk Assessment and Control.

If you down­loaded the draft from the CSA web site, remem­ber that the PDF will lock on 17-​​Mar, and you will no longer be able to do any­thing with it. If you haven’t looked at it yet, NOW IS THE TIME! Comments must also be sub­mit­ted by the 17th, so please sub­mit them as soon as pos­si­ble. No sub­mis­sions will be accepted after the 17th of March!

If you don’t have the draft already, get it here. Comments can be sub­mit­ted in the same place as you down­load the draft. DO NOT SUBMIT COMMENTS TO THIS BLOG.

If you need more infor­ma­tion on the draft or on sub­mis­sion of com­ments, please con­tact the CSA Project Manager, Ms. Elizabeth Rankin, elizabeth.rankin’at’csa.ca, +1 (416) 747‑2011.

CSA Z1002 Risk Assessment Standard — 60 Day Public Review

Posted by on January 17, 2011 1 comment

60 Day Public Review Starts Today

CSA (the Canadian Standards Association) has been work­ing on a new risk assess­ment stan­dard called Z1002 — Occupational Health and Safety Hazard Identification and Elimination and Risk Assessment and Control, since the fall of 2007.

This risk assess­ment stan­dard is the first of its kind glob­ally and will place the CSA Z100x series of Occupational Health and Safety Management stan­dards at the fore­front glob­ally when it is pub­lished this year.

This stan­dard is des­tined to become a Canadian National Standard and will have influ­ence on all the stan­dards in the CSA Catalog that include risk assess­ment (CSA Z432, CSA Z434, CSA Z460, CSA Z462, etc.)

As of today, the stan­dard is avail­able for pub­lic review. This means that you can down­load a draft copy of the stan­dard for free and have a look at the con­tent of the doc­u­ment. It’s also hoped that you will pro­vide com­ments on the doc­u­ment that will go back to the tech­ni­cal com­mit­tee at the end of the Public Review phase on 17-​​Apr-​​11 17-​​Mar-​​11. Every com­ment will be reviewed by the Technical Committee. You have the chance to make change in the doc­u­ment before it is pub­lished later this year.

Public Review is only open for 60 days, so act quickly! On 17-​​Apr-​​11 17-​​Mar-​​11 review will close per­ma­nently for this edi­tion of the document!

Get The Draft

If you are inter­ested in review­ing and com­ment­ing on the draft, please visit:

https://​review​.csa​.ca/​o​p​r​/​o​p​r​_​l​i​s​t​.​asp

You can down­load the draft and you can link to the com­ments page for the doc­u­ment to pro­vide your thoughts on it.

More Information

Need more infor­ma­tion on this stan­dard? Please con­tact the CSA Project Manager:
Elizabeth Rankin,
ph: (416) 747‑2011

Manufacturing Automation Round Table

Posted by on October 25, 2010 Comments Off

On September 21st, 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.

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