Tag: hazard identification

In this episode, your host, Doug Nix, talks about one of the most impor­tant parts of risk assess­ment: haz­ard iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. Learn about what haz­ards are and how to han­dle haz­ards that you don’t have enough expe­ri­ence to evaluate.

Transcript

Time	Top­ic	Relat­ed Links
00:00	Wel­come to the Safe­ty Guy Podcast!
01:24	Where I’ve been the last 2–1/2 months
01:48	Mail Bag
04:51	Recap of the last show. Con­tact Tom Doyle at Indus­tri­al Safe­ty Inte­gra­tion to find out more about CIRSMA Risk Man­age­ment Software.
05:50	Pod­Camp Toron­to 07
07:03	Haz­ard Identification
07:22	What is a hazard?	EN 1050 / ISO 14121 Ontario Min­istry of Labour CCOHS: Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Occu­pa­tion­al Health and Safe­ty US OHSA
11:19	Haz­ards that you don’t have enough expe­ri­ence to evaluate.	QPS Eval­u­a­tion Ser­vices Inc. Elec­tri­cal Inspec­tion and Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Laser Pro­fes­sion­als Inc. (now Ken­tek) Laser Haz­ard Analy­sis, Laser Safe­ty Train­ing and Laser Safe­ty Con­sult­ing Ser­vices Radi­a­tion Safe­ty Insti­tute of Cana­da. Ion­iz­ing radi­a­tion haz­ard analy­sis and con­sult­ing services.
12:20	Esti­mat­ing Severity
14:30	Kitchen knives vs. Belt Drives
17:58	How far do you have to go when iden­ti­fy­ing hazards?

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In our next episode, we’ll intro­duce the con­cept of Con­trol Reli­a­bil­i­ty and talk a bit about the key stan­dard for machine builders, ISO 13849–1: Safe­ty of machin­ery — Safe­ty-relat­ed parts of con­trol sys­tems — Part 1: Gen­er­al prin­ci­ples for design.