Machinery Safety 101
9 June, 2020

ISO/DIS 13849 – 1 Available for Public Review

by Doug Nix
in Canada, Control Functions, EU European Union, Functional Safety, International, Standards
Decision tree used to determine PL based on risk parameters.

Update 2020-10-11: The next three-day ISO/TC 199/WG8 meet­ing runs Tues­day-Thursday this week. Our com­mit­tee mem­bers will be wad­ing into the next 1 600 com­ments along with expert mem­bers from around the… 

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3 November, 2015

CSA Z432 Third Edition Open for Public Review!

by Doug Nix
in Canada, Control Functions, Functional Safety, Guards and Guarding, Hazards, Hierarchy of Controls, Information for Use, Risk Assessment

CSA Z432, Safe­guard­ing of Machinery, is the basic stand­ard for Canada when it comes to most types of machinery. Only Power Presses and Press Brakes, and Indus­tri­al Robots are covered… 

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30 July, 2015

Public Review: CSA Z1006 Management of Work in Confined Spaces.

by Doug Nix
in Canada, Standards

CSA Z1006 Man­age­ment of Work in Con­fined Spaces  is now avail­able for Pub­lic Review.  As new stand­ards are developed, and exist­ing stand­ards are revised, they are made avail­able for public… 

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1 April, 2011

CSA Z462 – Workplace Electrical Safety Public Review

by Doug Nix
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CSA Z462 – Work­place Elec­tric­al Safety is now avail­able for pub­lic review on the CSA web site. This stand­ard is the Cana­dian imple­ment­a­tion of NFPA 70E and IEEE P1584, covering… 

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