About Us

Our Services

Com­pli­ance InSight Con­sult­ing Inc. pro­vides spe­cial­ized con­sult­ing ser­vices to indus­tri­al machine builders and users, including:

• Machin­ery Risk Assessment
• Appli­ca­tion of the Hier­ar­chy of Controls
• Func­tion­al Safe­ty (Sys­tem Spec­i­fi­ca­tion & Analysis)
• Sup­port­ing Ontario Pre-Start Health and Safe­ty Reviews con­duct­ed by Indi­gate Engi­neer­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, MENA Engi­neer­ing and MTE Con­sul­tants Inc.
• Reg­u­la­to­ry Con­sult­ing in Cana­di­an, US and EU Markets
• Train­ing in all of the above

CIC works with key part­ners to pro­vide supe­ri­or ser­vice and pro­fes­sion­al­ism, serv­ing a broad client base in Asia, Cana­da, the US and Europe.

Standards Activities

• We are also very active in Stan­dards Devel­op­ment activ­i­ties. Our Prin­ci­pal Con­sul­tant, Doug Nix, sits on sev­er­al Tech­ni­cal committees: 

• CSA W117.2 — Safe­ty in Weld­ing, Cut­ting and Relat­ed Processes
• CSA Z1002 — Occu­pa­tion­al health and safe­ty — Haz­ard iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and elim­i­na­tion and risk assess­ment and control 
• CSA Z432 — Safe­guard­ing of Machinery
• IEC TC 65A — Sys­tem Aspects
• IEC TC 121B — Low-volt­age switchgear and con­trol­gear assemblies
• ISO/IEC Joint Task Force on the Con­cept of Risk and Asso­ci­at­ed Terms
• ISO Com­mit­tee on Con­sumer Pol­i­cy (COPOLCO)
• ISO/PC 329 — Con­sumer inci­dent inves­ti­ga­tion guide­line Join the Cana­di­an Mir­ror Com­mit­tee 🇨🇦
• ISO/TC 83/WG6 — Sports and oth­er recre­ation­al facil­i­ties and equip­ment — Sport and Recre­ation — Benefit/risk assess­ment Join the Cana­di­an Mir­ror Com­mit­tee 🇨🇦
• ISO/TC 199 — Safe­ty of Machin­ery^† Join the Cana­di­an Mir­ror Com­mit­tee 🇨🇦
• ISO/TC 270 — Plas­tics and rub­ber machines^† Join the Cana­di­an Mir­ror Com­mit­tee 🇨🇦

^† Chair of the Cana­di­an Mir­ror Committee

Training Services

CIC offers pri­vate and pub­lic train­ing sem­i­nars in our core areas of exper­tise. Train­ing is deliv­ered live via the web, in-per­son and at pub­lic train­ing events. CIC also pro­duces the Machin­ery Safe­ty 101 Pod­Cast and blog. You can down­load past shows and the Show Notes from our Pod­Cast archives. See our Train­ing pages for more.

Our History

Com­pli­ance inSight Con­sult­ing Inc. was formed in the spring of 2000 and for­mal­ly incor­po­rat­ed in the Province of Ontario, Cana­da. The first year of oper­a­tion includ­ed sig­nif­i­cant trav­el in the US and abroad to ser­vice clients.

From the spring of 2001 to the fall of 2007, Com­pli­ance InSight Con­sult­ing sup­port­ed work through QPS Eval­u­a­tion Ser­vices Inc. and Entela, Inc. in the machin­ery safe­ty field. More than 300 Ontario Pre-Start Health and Safe­ty Reviews were con­duct­ed by QPS Engi­neers, with field assess­ment and analy­sis done by Doug Nix.

In 2008, CIC and QPS ami­ca­bly part­ed ways. CIC con­tin­ues to pro­vide var­i­ous reg­u­la­to­ry, machin­ery safe­ty analy­sis, con­sult­ing and train­ing ser­vices to clients and sup­port Inda­gate Engi­neer­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, MENA Engi­neer­ing, and MTE Con­sul­tants in Pre-Start Health and Safe­ty Reviews.