UBSafe Inc.
Achieve a new culture of safety by reducing injury and increasing efficiency with an effective safeguarding process.
Who do WorkSafeBC turn to for Safeguarding expertise? UBSafe....
We provide Machine Safeguarding expertise from consultation to design to installation and validation. Our unique system ensures culture change within an organization and is customized to fit an organizations needs - everything from a single day of training to turnkey solutions to support meeting legislated safeguarding requirements in Western Canada.
B.C. to curtail log exports, rebuild forestry industries Premier John Horgan revealed on Thursday the pillars of a conscious and deliberate strategy to curtail exports of minimally processed lumber.
Here's a link to a project that UBSafe are engaged in partnering with WSBC and the Sawmill industry. http://www.bcforestsafe.org/files/ForestSafetyNewsletter_2017December.pdf
I keep threatening to be more active to help spread the word on 'state of the nation' with respect to safeguarding in Western Canada. Well, below is inserted a clip from WSBC's email newsletter (recommend that you get signed up!) with the incidents reported in the early fall of this year. I find the list interesting as some of these hazards are task related on a machine but not direct mechanized hazards from the machine motion.
Example of an in-running nip.......