Machinery Safety 101
4 April, 2019

Introduction to Functional Safety Seminars

by Doug Nix
in Complementary Protective Measures, Control Functions, Emergency Stop, Events, Free Talks, Functional Safety, Guards and Guarding, Interlocks, Interlocks, ISO 13849, Seminars, Standards, Training /
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Man training a group of people, pointing to Functional Safety topics on the whiteboard

If you are inter­ested in func­tion­al safety, and I know many read­ers are based on the stat­ist­ics I see for my oth­er func­tion­al safety-related posts, I think you will be inter­ested in this. I am col­lab­or­at­ing with the IEEE Product Safety Engin­eer­ing Soci­ety’s Vir­tu­al Chapter to provide a series of three 35 minute sem­inars dis­cuss­ing the fun­da­ment­als of func­tion­al safety. The…

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15 May, 2018

Five reasons you should attend our Free Safety Talks

by Doug Nix
in Events, Free Talks, Functional Safety, Hazardous Energy Control Procedures, Interlocks, Interlocks, ISO 13849, Lockout, News, Ontario, Pre-Start Health and Safety Reviews, Standards /
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Banner for the Free Safety Talks

Reas­on #1 – Free Safety Talks You can­’t argue with Free Stuff! Last week we partnered with Schmersal Canada and Frank­lin Empire to put on three days of Free Safety Talks. We had full houses in all three loc­a­tions, Wind­sor, Lon­don and Cam­bridge, with nearly 60 people par­ti­cip­at­ing. We had two great presenters who helped…

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4 April, 2018

Free Safety Talks – May 2018

by Doug Nix
in Events, Free Talks /
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Free Machinery Safety Talks This May we are once again part­ner­ing with Schmersal Canada and Frank­lin Empire to provide free safety talks in South­ern Ontario.  If you are respons­ible for the safety of work­ers using machinery in Ontario, Canada, ensur­ing their safety is a key pri­or­ity for you every day. Under­stand­ing your respons­ib­il­it­ies is vital to…

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28 April, 2014

The History behind April 28th, Canada’s National Day of Mourning

by Doug Nix
in Canada, Events /
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This post was writ­ten by Dorothy Wig­more, Occu­pa­tion­al health and green chem­istry spe­cial­ist, from Win­nipeg, Man­itoba, and a mem­ber of the Amer­ic­an Pub­lic Health Asso­ci­ation (APHA). The art­icle was ori­gin­ally pub­lished in the Spring 2010 Occu­pa­tion­al Health and Safety Sec­tion News­let­ter [1], and sub­sequently pos­ted on the APHA web­site. The post you are cur­rently read­ing was pre­vi­ously incor­rectly attrib­uted. Our sin­cere apo­lo­gies to Ms.…

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28 April, 2014

National Day of Mourning

by Doug Nix
in Canada, Events /
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Fight for the Liv­ing, Mourn for the Dead Work­ers head to jobs Each day expect­ing safety there Only to die. Why?D. Nix, 2014 Today, 28-April is Canada’s Nation­al Day of Mourn­ing for work­ers killed and injured on the job. In the past, Canada has imple­men­ted many innov­a­tions in work­place safety, and yet each year nearly…

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12 January, 2011

New Seminar – Product Compliance in Europe – CE Marking Requirements

by Doug Nix
in Canada, CE Mark, EU European Union, Events, Seminars, USA /
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If you do busi­ness in the European Uni­on, you know that CE mark­ing products for sale in the EU and EEC coun­tries is required. These require­ments change as the legis­la­tion and stand­ards are updated, mak­ing the CE Mark­ing task a chal­len­ging one. Com­pli­ance InSight Con­sult­ing has partnered with Glob­al­Norm GmbH and the Cana­dian Ger­man Cham­ber of…

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