To improve safety in the workplace, you need insight into the best solutions. The right safety engineering practices help you protect your employees from fire, explosion, machine injuries, hazardous material accidents, and more. Also, the best safety engineering solutions reduces the risk of damages to your business and its contents, which prevent an operational [...]
To avoid cost and delays start with a contractually obligating the right people to share the right information. The short answer is a PHSR/PSR (Pre-Start Health and Safety Review) by an engineering group you trust. It’s a well-known axiom that if everyone had all of the available information right at their fingertips, it would be [...]
To avoid unnecessary liability, many purchasers of machinery and equipment pass the responsibility for PSRs on to their suppliers. Many of our new clients are complaining that the equipment they have purchased Overseas from Countries of Origin like China are not complaint. The price is good, the quality is good, they function well, but [...]
Storing Flammable Liquids to be compliant with PSR/PSHR Ontario Requirements The storage, dispensing and usage of flammable liquids are regulated by fire codes as well as occupational health and safety laws. The regulations allow the storage of flammable/combustible liquids in plants in the following areas: * specially designed storage rooms, in closed containers only, where [...]
Why Is Dust Explosion Testing Required Ontario A major risk for any industrial workplace, is the rapid combustion of fine particles in the air. Dust explosions occur anywhere that there is enough dispersed combustible material in the air. They are particularly dangerous in confined spaces where the explosive power, under extremely high pressure, can [...]
What is Owner’s Engineer The law in Ontario required that employers and supervisor “Take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances“ to protect workers under their employ. But what is Reasonable? Reasonable to whom? Based on What? I’m a good guy am I not reasonable? There is precedent for what is reasonable. What is reasonable has [...]
The automotive industry is more automated that most industries. Global competition and ever increasing quality standards have driven innovation and automation ahead of most other manufacturing sectors. This intense automation has created demands on automotive manufacturer to incorporate efficient safety stations into their highly automated manufacturing processes. These processes are characterized by [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Machine Guarding in Ontario Machine guarding in Ontario is treated differently than just about anywhere else in North America. Machine guarding compliance in Ontario is both scrutinized and enforced. If Machine guarding employs so called safety devices that signal the machine to stop, a formal Pre-Start [...]
Pre-Start Health and Safety Review - The Necessary Steps To Bring Your Equipment Into Compliance Equipment compliance should culminate in a Pre-Start Health and Safety Review that indicates, without any disclaimers that the equipment is compliant to current applicable safety standards. This represents technical due diligence that protects workers, management and the organizations itself. [...]
The Risk Assessment is an essential part of any Safety Compliance Audit. In a formal Pre-Start Health and Safety Review Report the Risk Assessment (RA) is absolutely required. The Risk Assessment methodology and format are described by Technical Safety Standards such as ISO 12100:2010 Safety of Machinery- General Principles of Design, Risk Assessment and Risk [...]
