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A Note about Our Travel Policy

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We believe travel gives us a broad per­spect­ive both per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally. Our focus is glob­al. Our eth­ic­al pos­i­tion is clear; we believe in the health and safety of ALL people. We believe in the power of sci­entif­ic data, and in the power of con­nect­ing with oth­ers glob­ally, so we might learn from one anoth­er.

Compliance inSight Consulting Inc. began 17 years ago; we spend our time work­ing to help ensure the safety of people who work with machinery. We have cli­ents whose busi­nesses span the globe, but most are in North America. And as many of our read­ers know, Doug has always been act­ive with­in the glob­al reg­u­lat­ory com­munity, rep­res­ent­ing both our industry and Canada. (Doug has occa­sion­ally found him­self on more air­craft in a month than many air crews!)

New Travel Policy

The cur­rent US admin­is­tra­tion has made travel to the US prob­lem­at­ic or even impossible for many. Our com­pany and many of our col­leagues are among those affected by these decisions, as the glob­al com­munity scrambles to deal with what has become a daily onslaught of shift­ing US policy decisions. As a res­ult, we have decided to stop trav­el­ling to the US, effect­ive imme­di­ately, and for the fore­see­able future. 

Our Solution

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Our cli­ents from the US are our friends and neigh­bours, and we are still here to help.

We will con­tin­ue to offer a vari­ety of web-​based solu­tions to our cli­ents, provid­ing train­ing and con­sult­ing ser­vices via web meet­ing soft­ware, phone and email. We are cur­rently invest­ig­at­ing cloud-​based edu­ca­tion solu­tions so we can offer a com­pre­hens­ive online train­ing portal. We will con­tin­ue to serve our US cli­ents as we have in the past, we just won’t be stop­ping by for a vis­it for a while. We hope you under­stand.

Doug Nix
Managing Director,
Principal Consultant		 Kimberly Nix
Managing Director

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Fall Courses Posted!

Fall 2012 Seminars!

Training eventI prom­ised in an earli­er post this sum­mer that we would be launch­ing open enrol­ment courses this fall, and we’ve done it! We have all of our cur­rent sem­inars lis­ted on the Compliance InSight Training pages.

We are offer­ing two courses this fall in three loc­a­tions. They are:

October, Kitchener, Ontario – Introduction to Risk Assessment

November, Portland, Oregon – Introduction to Risk Assessment

November, Kitchener, Ontario – Fundamentals of Functional Safety – ISO 13894 – 1:2006.

Course descrip­tions are avail­able, as are more detailed syl­labi on the Training pages. Registrations for these courses opens on 15-​Sep, and seat­ing is lim­ited to 20 at each event. VISA and MasterCard pay­ments and com­pany cheques are accep­ted at regis­tra­tion.

2013 Seminars

In the new year we are con­sid­er­ing a num­ber of top­ics for 1, 2 and 3-​day sem­inars, includ­ing;

  • Machinery Risk Control – Applying the Hierarchy of Controls
  • Intro to CE Marking for Machinery products
  • Application of CSA Z432 Safeguarding of Machinery
  • CSA Z1002 – OHS Risk Assessment and Control

We are very inter­ested in your interests and con­cerns. Leave a com­ment or email me about the top­ics you are most inter­ested in for 2013!

Get the Basics Right!

For more than 15 years I’ve been teach­ing people about risk assess­ment, machinery safety and CE Marking of machinery in private, onsite classes and through present­a­tions at safety con­fer­ences. Things are about to change!

This fall, Compliance InSight Consulting will begin offer­ing open-​enrolment work­shops in CE Marking, Risk Assessment Functional Safety, and Machinery Safety, all with a focus on indus­tri­al machinery. These courses will be hands-​on events, with stu­dents engaged in work­shop activ­it­ies through­out eachTraining event event.

In the winter, these work­shops will also migrate to our on-​line edu­ca­tion plat­form, so stu­dents in any loc­a­tion around the world can access our train­ing pro­grams.

This is an excit­ing step for CIC, and the work­shops we have planned are enga­ging, dynam­ic and inform­a­tion packed.

Watch the blog, and sub­scribe to our mail­ing list to be the first to know when regis­tra­tion opens. Workshops will be lim­ited size, first-​come, first-​served. We’ll announce dates and loc­a­tions in early August!