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JUNE 2013 B.C. safety review untitled Continued from page 9 with Vancouver-based UBSafe, a machine safety consulting company. "We have legislation that says you have to adequately safeguard your machinery and then we have legislation that says those safeguards have to be designed and performed per Z432-94," says Rood. According to B.C.'s OHS Reg. 12.3, employers are required to safeguard new equipment and machinery in accordance with CSA Standard Z43294, Safeguarding of Machinery. "Basically, you have to build your guards to stop anybody from getting to a point of a hazardous operation, but as soon as you use those safeguards as a control system isolation device," employers need to apply to WorkSafeBC with their safety plan and request approval, he says. "There is no name for it, it's just an approval under regulation 10.10 for a CSID, (which is) a control system isolation device as an alternate form of lockout." For the approval, employers will need to submit a risk assessment, a statement on the performance level of the circuits and all the documentation on the performance level of the devices, Rood says. "All the steps of the pre-start safety review is essentially what this is," he says. Employers are required to submit the report to WorkSafeBC and await approval, Rood says. Final step evaluates process Continued from page 11 •Are the controls being communicated to the appropriate workers and supervisors? •Are controls and related processes being followed? •What suggestions do workers and supervisors have for creating/modifying controls to be more effective? These and other questions will form the basis for developing and implementing the prevention strategy and plan steps necessary to address areas of weakness. Having engaged workers and supervisors in identifying opportunities for change will also provide the opportunity to engage them in the process of implementing the changes identified. Evaluation The final step is to evaluate the progress being made including ensuring the changes implemented are creating the desired effect of reducing the risk of harm to workers. 12 Along with this, it is important to ask the following question: Were there any new risks created during the process? If so, the following should be asked: Do we have appropriate controls in place for those new risks? Like any change project, the process of identifying risks and prevention strategies need to be assessed. Utilizing processes from the discipline of project management, assessing the overall process and lessons learned will assist to continually improve the processes followed for identifying, developing, implementing and managing hazards and associated risks to workers and further developing to organizations safety management system. Dylan Short is the managing director of The Redlands Group, an Oakville, Ont.-based safety and risk consultation company. Short is also the director of educational services group with the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering. He can be reached at dylan.short@redlandsgroup.com or 416 843-7167. www.safety-reporter.com Published 12 times a year by Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd. Subscription rate: $99 per year Customer Service Tel: (416) 609-3800 (Toronto) (800) 387-5164 (outside Toronto) Fax: (416) 298-5106 E-mail: carswell.customerrelations @thomsonreuters.com Website: www.carswell.com One Corporate Plaza 2075 Kennedy Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1T 3V4 Publisher: John Hobel Managing Editor: Todd Humber Editor: Zachary Pedersen zachary.pedersen@thomsonreuters.com (416) 649-9584 Marketing Manager: Mohammad Ali mm.ali@thomsonreuters.com (416) 609-5866 Circulation Co-ordinator: Travis Chan travis.chan@thomsonreuters.com (416) 609-5872 ©2013 Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd/ ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-7798-2810-4 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the written permission of the publisher (Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd.). Return Mail Registration # 1522825 Return Postage Guaranteed Paid News Revenue Toronto Canadian Safety Reporter is part of the Canadian HR Reporter group of publications: Canadian HR Reporter •www.hrreporter.com Canadian Occupational Safety •www.cos-mag.com Canadian Payroll Reporter •www.payroll-reporter.com Canadian Employment Law Today •www.employmentlawtoday.com Canadian Labour Reporter •www.labour-reporter.com The Canadian Employer See www.carswell.com for information. Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2013

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