Occupational Health and Safety
Safer workplaces start with safer machinery. The days of “Common Sense” are long gone, with cutting-edge technologies bringing new, sophisticated hazards into your workplace. On top of that, keeping up with Occupational Health and Safety regulations and standards can be confusing and challenging, even more so if you work in multiple markets. It is often difficult to know where to begin. We help you navigate this maze of legislation, regulation and over-complication. Everything we do is about keeping workers safe every day.
Machinery Risk Assessment
We specialize in risk assessment and safety-related controls for machinery. We help machinery users assess the risks of machinery in their workplaces. Risk assessment is a primary tool — or should be — for machine designers. Using risk assessment in your design process gives you better control over the design of safety systems, provides you with sound data for making safety-related decisions and gives you solid evidence of due diligence when needed. If risk assessment is new to you, we can help. We provide risk assessments and training services so that you can continue to assess risk with your team in the future. We help machine builders assess the risks presented by the machines they build. Compliance Insight Consulting provides the guidance you need to reduce those risks, making your equipment safer without sacrificing productivity — while partnering with you to make this goal achievable and affordable.
Machine Guarding
We bring sound judgement, strengthened by more than a decade of experience, to the analysis of machine guarding, including the design of safety-related controls and reliability analysis under CSA, ANSI and ISO rules — right up to the latest edition of ISO 13849–1. We’ve tested hundreds of light curtains, safety mats and two-hand control installations on power presses, transfer machines, robotic assembly cells, and many other applications. We’ve seen these installations done well and how they can go wrong.
Industrial Lasers
Lasers are one of the 20th Century’s great inventions. Thousands are in use in industrial workplaces around the world, from picowatt lasers used for telecommunications to multi-kilowatt cutting lasers.
If you use lasers in your workplace to mark, cut, weld, or heat-treat products, laser hazard assessments are necessary. If you build machinery incorporating lasers, understanding the hazards is critical to properly safeguarding your employees and customers. We can provide you with laser hazard analysis under the US, Canadian, and International standards using ANSI Z136.1, CAN/CSA/IEC E60825‑1, and IEC 60825–1. We can evaluate the safety of lasers integrated into manufacturing systems under ANSI B11.21.
Our goal is the same as yours—creating safer workplaces for everyone. Putting safety first means we can all go home to be with the ones we love.
Leadership and Innovation in Industrial Machinery Safety Consulting and Training
Compliance Insight Consulting provides proven technical expertise in risk assessment, machinery safety consulting (under Canadian and US standards), laser hazard analysis, control of hazardous energy (lockout), and CE Marking for the European Union.
Contact us today for a free consultation or to request a quotation!