Haz­ard ana­lys­is and imple­ment­ing machine safety can be com­plic­ated. We’re here to help!

Let’s face it, keep­ing up with safety stand­ards and Occu­pa­tion­al Health and Safety reg­u­la­tions can be a con­fus­ing and chal­len­ging task. Let us help you under­stand machine guard safety.

We’re invit­ing you to attend our inform­at­ive sem­in­ar on such top­ics as PSR, risk assess­ment, and CSA stand­ards on guard­ing.

Dur­ing this sem­in­ar we will review:

• PSR Guidelines – require­ments for Ontario
• Ini­tial steps before pur­chas­ing a machine
• Steps for exist­ing machinery
• Updates and changes to Z432-16
• Col­lab­or­at­ive Robots
• ISO 14119 – the new stand­ard for inter­lock design

Presenters:

Kartik Vashi, Schmersal

FS Engin­eer (TÜV Rhein­land, #10045/15, Machinery)

Kartik Vashi is an industry expert with over 10 years of exper­i­ence in help­ing cus­tom­ers with determ­in­ing their machine safety require­ments. He is cur­rently an Applic­a­tion and Products Man­ager with Schmersal. He is also an act­ive mem­ber of the CSA stand­ards com­mit­tee for machine safety.

 

Doug Nix, C.E.T., SM-IEEE ’14, Com­pli­ance inSight Con­sult­ing Inc.

Doug Nix co-owns Com­pli­ance InSight Con­sult­ing, Inc., and writes the Machinery Safety 101 blog. His back­ground spans more than 30 years of engin­eer­ing tech­no­logy exper­i­ence includ­ing product test­ing, indus­tri­al con­trol sys­tem design and machinery safety. Nix spe­cial­izes in machinery and OHS risk assess­ment meth­ods and pro­cesses. He has been teach­ing risk assess­ment prin­ciples and pro­cesses since 1997.

Nix is a mem­ber of the Ontario Asso­ci­ation of Cer­ti­fied Engin­eer­ing Tech­ni­cians and Tech­no­lo­gists (OACETT) and the Insti­tute for Elec­tric­al and Elec­tron­ic Engin­eers (IEEE). Nix serves on 7 CSA, IEC and ISO Tech­nic­al Com­mit­tees related to his work and serves as the Chair of CSA Z1002, and Canada’s com­mit­tees to ISO/TC 199 Safety of Machinery and ISO/TC 270 Plastics and rub­ber machines.

For more see Doug’s pro­file on Linked­In.