Powerful lasers are becoming prevalent in manufacturing and there is a misconception that they are not that much of a hazard. It is, for the most part, an invisible hazard and if you can't see it then it is difficult to recognize it. 

Feed: Government of Ontario News - Labour, Training and Skills Development

Posted on: March 3, 2021 1:00 PM

Author: Government of Ontario News - Labour, Training and Skills Development

Subject: Ontario Hires 100 Additional Health and Safety Inspectors

As a manufacturing company, your focus is on ensuring that your equipment is running efficiently, effectively, and at a reasonable cost. As machine and robotic safety experts, we at ZCS run into what we refer to as “legacy equipment” quite often. This being what is considered older, outdated equipment that is still a common part of many manufacturing processes.

Professional Ethics and Functional Safety is a catchy title.  But what does that mean?  Let’s start with the definition of Functional Safety.  A search on the internet results in this from Wikipedia:

“Functional safety is the part of the overall safety of a system or piece of equipment that depends on automatic protection operating correctly in response to its inputs or failure in a predictable manner (fail-safe).”

Recently, a plastic piping manufacturing company in Huntsville (ON) was convicted and fined for hazardous work environment

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Ontario’s Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn released the following statement today: