CSA Z432 – Safeguarding of Machinery

Overview

Machine hazards continue to be a leading cause of serious workplace injury and death. CSA Z432 Safeguarding of Machinery is a voluntary standard that helps to protect workers from hazards associated with the use of mobile or stationary machinery by providing the description, selection, and application of guards and safety devices. The new edition of the standard has undergone extensive review and revision.

The Safeguarding of Machinery: Understanding and Applying CSA Z432 course has been updated to reflect the new edition of the standards. It is offered in collaboration with WSPS and guides participants through the sections of the standard so they become familiar with its content and application.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the hazards and impacts of machine related injuries 
• Explain the structure and scope of CSA Z432:23
• Recall important definitions from CSA Z432:23
• Explain how the Standard helps to create a strategy for selecting protective measures, risk analysis and risk reduction
• Recognize the important considerations for machine controls and safety control systems
• Identify the Clauses relevant to selecting and using guards and protective devices
• Review some important safeguarding application requirements
• Recall information in the Annexes that provides supplemental safeguarding application information

Target Audience

• Managers and Supervisors
• Maintenance and Purchasing Personnel
• Safety Professionals and Engineers
• Project Managers and Certified JHSC Members

What is Included

• CSA Z432:23, Safeguarding of Machinery standard

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This event contains 8 technical hours and may be eligible for Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professional (BCRSP) Continuous Professional Development (CPD) points. See the BCRSP website for CPD point criteria.

Warren Fox

Warren is a health and safety professional with more than 35 years of experience in Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Health practice and teaching. His practice experience ranges from the food and beverage manufacturing sector to the secondary and postsecondary education sector to the nuclear industry. He continues to teach Occupational Health and Safety at the University of British Columbia and the BC Institute of Technology. 

Warren is a retired holder of the Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) and Certified Public Health Inspector - Canada (CPHI(C)) professional designations. In addition to his work and teaching in OHS, Warren also consults to industry in the areas of Environmental Management and Quality Management. 

Warren's most rewarding times in OHS are when he has the opportunity to provide education, training and knowledge transfer to workers, supervisors and managers and when he is mentoring new OHS practitioners.

Ian Rood

Ian Rood is an expert in application of safeguarding systems with more than 30 years’ experience in industrial automation control system design. His experience ranges thru a wide variety of industrial sectors across North America including food & beverage, warehouse and distribution, automotive, wood products, pulp & paper, secondary steel, and a wide variety of general manufacturing facilities. Ian has educated legislative authorities throughout industrial sectors over the last 10+ years in risk assessment, safeguarding application and design across Canada. Ian currently manages an engineering firm in safeguarding system assessment, design, verification and validation in Western Canada. Ian holds accreditations by ASCTTBC (PTech), CSSE (CHSC), and is Functional safety qualified (FSEng course) by TÜV Rheinland in functional safety of machinery. Ian is an active member of the CSA Z432, Z434 and UL 3100 technical committees, as well as a member of the ISO 19085 mirror committee and is the current chair of the Canadian mirror committee for ISO TC39/SC10 working groups on presses and metal forming machines.