Machine Guarding Safety Training
Guard Devices Workshop

Machine guarding training, the purpose of this one-day course is to give participants the tools to create a formal machine safety program. To ensure comprehensive safety and health guarding standards around machinery and equipment in the workplace. Participants who will benefit from attending this training include: JHSC - Joint Health And Safety Committee members. This course is customized for employees with illiteracy in the workplace, cuts training time in half. We also offer lockout tagout and other industrial equipment training, as well as workplace development and management training.

Course Content:

• Recognize basic types of hazards associated with Machinery and equipment processes (e.g. both Safety and health related hazards)
• Recognize and identify legal and other applicable standards and guidelines relevant to Machine Safety
• Assess risk of workplace hazards: adequacy and existence of appropriate controls, undetected, hazards, incident severity and frequency considerations, etc.
• Assess compliance of firm, relative to required, standards (legal, etc.)
• Identify basic types of controls in a Machine Safety, Program: e.g. guards, procedures (e.g. lockout, ergonomic, chemical handling), other equipment/devices (e.g. personal controls)
• Develop an Action Plan for implementing Machine, Safety Program

Length: Two hours.

Maintenance staff, engineering staff, intended“ Knowledgeable persons“ (Regulation 8), supervisors, safety coordinators and setup people. Any person(s) who will be maintaining, setting-up, cleaning machinery and / or equipment, and will be exposed to a hazard should the machine be engaged/ energized.

Where Do We Train?

We will do training anywhere in North America, we are proud to be serving our surrounding areas, Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville, Toronto, London, Kitchener, St. Catherines & Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Buffalo New York, Jersey, Pennsylvania and Detroit Michigan U.S.