Industrial machinery safety consulting

Wel­come to Com­pli­ance Insight Con­sult­ing Inc., your trust­ed part­ner in indus­tri­al machin­ery safe­ty and the com­plex­i­ties of reg­u­la­to­ry com­pli­ance. At Com­pli­ance Insight, we pride our­selves on deliv­er­ing tai­lored, expert solu­tions that empow­er busi­ness­es to meet their com­pli­ance oblig­a­tions con­fi­dent­ly and effi­cient­ly. Our ded­i­cat­ed team of pro­fes­sion­als brings a wealth of expe­ri­ence and deep indus­try knowl­edge, ensur­ing that your orga­ni­za­tion remains com­pli­ant, com­pet­i­tive, and pre­pared for the future. Dis­cov­er how our com­pre­hen­sive ser­vices can trans­form your approach to com­pli­ance and dri­ve your success.

Executive Team

A portrait of Douglas Nix taken in 2008.

Douglas Nix

Pres­i­dent, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Tech­ni­cal Services

His back­ground spans more than 30 years, includ­ing test­ing, indus­tri­al con­trol sys­tem design, and machin­ery safety.

Kimberly Nix

Kimberly Nix

CFO, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Train­ing and Development

Mar­ket­ing design and plan­ning, admin­is­tra­tive man­age­ment, and prod­uct development.

Our History

Com­pli­ance Insight Con­sult­ing Inc. was formed in the spring of 2000 and for­mal­ly incor­po­rat­ed in the Province of Ontario, Cana­da. Dur­ing its first year of oper­a­tion, Doug trav­elled exten­sive­ly 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. QPS engi­neers con­duct­ed more than 300 Ontario Pre-Start Health and Safe­ty Reviews, with Doug Nix per­form­ing field assess­ments and analyses.

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 BDL Engi­neer­ing Inc., Inda­gate Engi­neer­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, and MTE Con­sul­tants in Pre-Start Health and Safe­ty Reviews.

Our industrial machinery safety consulting 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 BDL Engi­neer­ing Inc., Indi­gate Engi­neer­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, MTE Con­sul­tants Inc., and Water­loo EMC Services.
  • 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 Development Activities

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

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, as well as in-per­son and 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 archivesSee our Train­ing pages for more.