To avoid cost and delays start with a contractually obligating the right people to share the right information. The short answer is a PHSR/PSR (Pre-Start Health and Safety Review) by an engineering group you trust.
Pre-Start Health and Safety Review Process
Let me illustrate my point by providing you with an example. I was called by one of my clients recently to provide a PHSR/PSR (Pre-Start Health and Safety Review) for a machine. The supplier had sold similar machines to my client in the past, so purchasing went ahead and my client bought the machine. When I came in for a visit, the machine was already at my client’s facility, but he had realized that it might not have sufficient guarding. The client decided to fix the guarding on site because of the urgent need to have the machine operational. But I realized that the machine had to be put in a classified environment as far as the electrical code was concerned.
No provisions had been made by the client to comply with the electrical code’s requirements. Fixing the machine at the job site became an impossible task. The Occupational Health and Safety Act in Ontario requires owners or lessees of industrial machines, equipment and processes to make sure that the machine, device or process is in compliance with the Act. This compliance process is called a PHSR/PSR (Pre-Start Health and Safety Review). It requires that a professional engineer provide a report identifying compliance with the Act. PSR (Pre-Start Health and Safety Review) considerations always must be included in the decision-making process regarding new equipment.
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