INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND AUTOMATION CONSULTING PTY LTD (ISAAC)

Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment: Safety of Machinery- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

ISAAC specialises in machinery risk assessment, focusing on hazard identification and risk evaluation through facilitation, collation, and education for industrial machinery.

In helping our clients grow their skill-set for meeting obligatory requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Victoria) , ISAAC specialise in working collaboratively with customers to assist their capture of all knowledge, use, history and experience for the identification of the hazards of the machinery, and establishing AS4024 Safety of Machinery compliant practical risk mitigation strategies. This is an inclusive process that embraces the input of all personnel that have current and or previous exposure to the machinery, including but not limited to machine operators, machine setters, cleaners, supervisors, trades, engineers, OH&S personnel etc.

ISAAC's services are designed to facilitate and provide technical compliment to the findings of a team hazard identification and risk assessment, with the goal of producing a quality record with practical substance, and subsequent fit-for-purpose preventative measures for your machinery derived with your personnel. Our machinery safety skills are comprehensive, TUV certified, and we are vigilant with staying current in the latest legislation, standards, and emerging technologies. We are also independent of directly providing equipment supply and integration services, ensuring untrammeled guidance. However, should a client not have the in-house skill set or capacity to mitigate their risks and integrate resulting control measures, we work to establish them with a network of support to complete their implementation.

We primarily offer our consulting services only within the state of Victoria, Australia, to enable us to maintain our best availability for the demand of local partners, designers of plant, OEM's, suppliers of plant, employers and integrators.

If you require dedicated and quality support in Machinery Safety, whether it's for hazard identification and risk assessment, or in the development and implementation of your risk mitigation strategies, ISAAC is the ideal service provider. Please contact us if you would like to learn more.

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Some Points of Difference

1) Comprehensive Expertise Beyond Electrical Controls:

            We stand apart from most safety of machinery consultants through unique expertise—by not only being skilled in safety related parts of electrical controls, but also having specialist in-depth knowledge of pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical systems within safety-related parts of control systems.

             

These systems often pose significant risks if hazards are unidentified and unmitigated, potentially leading to unexpected and dangerous failures, that were unforseen during assessment.

 

Is your current support competent in failure modes and effects analysis of safety related parts of control systems for all of these energy sources?

 

 

2) Support for general workshops:

We also extend our services to assist general industrial and commercial workshops of all sizes and scope, whether you are a major engineering firm or the local mechanical service centre. Our offerings include:

- Introductory audit.
- Hazard identification and risk assessment.

- Risk mitigation strategies.
- Safe work and isolation procedures.

- Periodic inspections.

- Training programs.

 

 

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How Worksafe Victoria applies the Law in Relation to Identifying and understanding Hazards and Risks

Employers, designers of plant, manufacturers of plant, suppliers of plant and other duty holders are legally obligated to be proactive rather than waiting for a safety issue to be reported before taking action. They should familiarise themselves with the OH&S Act and regulations, relevant WorkSafe codes, and guidance materials specific to their industry (e.g., standards), to ensure they understand, action, implement, practice and maintain their obligatory requirements.

 

WorkSafe Victoria have included within their web site a downloadable free and brief guideline, titled "How WorkSafe applies the law in relation to identifying and understanding hazards and risks". (link to the relevant WorkSafe Victoria web site page)

Made under Section 12 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, the guideline assists understanding that duty holders have obligation to take all reasonable steps to identify and understand hazards and risks to health and safety under Part 3 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004. With respect to machinery, 'duty holders' include, but are not limited to; employers (sections 21 to 23); self-employed persons (section 24); persons who manage or control workplaces (section 26); designers of plant (section 27); manufacturers of plant (section 29); suppliers of plant (section 30); and persons installing, erecting or commissioning plant (section 31).

A common theme identified within many workplace accidents is a failure to have undertaken hazard identification and risk assessment, and implement practical preventative measures. Some recent examples can be found within the articles of the 'News' links below. Hazard identification and risk assessment is an initial necessary, responsible and legislated step in safety of machinery.

Plant - What Types?

ISAAC provide services to assist clientele for the following types of plant defined in Regulation 74 of the Victorian OHS Regulations 2017.

 

Plant that processes material by way of a mechanical action that:

(i) cuts, drills, punches or grinds the material; or

(ii) presses, forms, hammers, joins or moulds the material; or

(iii) combines, mixes, sorts, packages, assembles, knits or weaves the material

— including plant where the functions referred to in (i), (ii) and (iii) are incidental to the main purpose of the plant.

 

ISAAC subsequently specialise in safety of machinery consulting for basic to complex industrial manufacturing machines and their interconnected forms of plant. We also offer services for workshop machinery.

 

Please note that there are many other forms of plant described in the Victorian OHS Regulations. Those which are not listed above are not encompassed by our skill set. (e.g., pressure equipment, lifts, tractors, earth moving equipment, amusement rides, lasers, scaffolds, explosive-powered tools etc.) For a detailed definition of plant please refer to Regulation 74 of the Victorian OHS Regulations. (Link to Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 - Victorian Legislation Web Page)

 

We do not currently offer services for plant that is intended to be used in explosive atmospheres that have been delineated as a hazardous area.

 

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Risk Assessment

Facilitation of Machinery Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Workplace Safety

Support to industry in OH&S foundational requirements

Concepts

Control concepts - Safety of Machinery & Industrial Automation

Purchase Specifications

Reduce your risk of unexpected post purchase equipment costs

Other Services

Learning, SWP's, periodic inspection of safety control systems, Did You Know?

Incidents & Outcomes

Examples of Safety of Machinery Incidents and Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

ISAAC - "Making Safe Work"

CONTACT US:

We are based in Melbourne's Southeast, servicing Victoria. ISAAC value your support inquiry. To enable our principal consultant to contact you directly, telephone 1800 472 221, or please email us your inquiry or booking request. You can call and leave message at any time. Replies are provided promptly during our service hours of Monday to Thursday 8am to 4pm, excluding public holidays.