Program Overview

Safety of industrial machines and equipment

Presentation

The training will integrate the recent modifications made to section XXI of the Regulation respecting occupational health and safety in Quebec in July 2023 relating to machine safety. These modifications include new definitions as well as 22 new or modified articles. Some of these modifications are major and relate in particular to the obligation to produce an instruction manual from the machine manufacturer, more directly regulate the use of standards and the role of engineers and now make the implementation of standards relating to the reliability of control systems obligatory. Machine users as well as designers are therefore directly targeted by these new obligations.

Determine accident scenarios and explore different solutions to increase safety by taking into account the main machine safety standards such as: ISO 12100 and CSA Z432.

In this training, the use of educational materials developed as part of a research project with the Robert-Sauvé Research Institute in Occupational Health and Safety (IRSST) will be favored.

At the end of this training, the participant will be able to carry out an analysis of the risks associated with machines and determine effective solutions from a safety point of view.

Specific objectives

• Day 1:
  • Carry out a risk analysis:
    • Understand the different dimensions of an accident scenario
    • Identify dangerous phenomena, situations and events
    • Estimate risks in order to establish action priorities
    • Explore solution types and their hierarchy
    • Establish the criteria for a good solution
    • Implement the approach for a simple machine.
• Day 2:
  • Determine effective solutions for security:
    • Identify the type of protector required based on safety and productivity needs;
    • Choose a suitable type of protection device;
    • Correctly apply the protection device;
    • Determine the required level of performance of the safety-related control system.

Target audience

This training is aimed at anyone involved in analyzing the risks associated with machines and implementing means to reduce them (engineers, designers, maintenance personnel and members of occupational health and safety committees).

Prerequisites

None

Content

Content

• Day 1:
  • Welcome and presentation of the trainer;
  • Introduction and objectives of the training;
  • Context (statistics, standards and regulations);
  • Accidental process;
  • Risk analysis approach;
  • Risk reduction approach;
  • Integration activity on risk analysis.
• Day 2:
  • Basic principles of protectors associated with protection devices;
  • Protection device technologies, with laboratory activity;
  • Performance level PLa to PLe for protection devices (ISO 13849);
  • Integration activity with demonstrators;
  • Conclusion.

Educational approach

Lectures and integration activities

Training people

• Réal Bourbonnière:
  • Automation engineer, graduate of the École de Technologie Supérieure.
  • Worked at the Robert Sauvé Health and Safety Research Institute from 1989 to 2007.
  • Worked at the CNESST from 2007 to 2010 where he worked as an expert advisor in machine safety.

Prices and schedules

Prices

• Early bird registration: $1,205.00
• Regular registration: $1,325.00

Schedule

• Longueuil Campus: April 28 and 29, 2026
• Duration: 15 hours
• Regular price: $1,325
• Preferential rate: $1,205