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Health & Safety Canada 2008

Health and Safety Canada 2008 kicked off in Toronto last April featuring the launch of MASC 2008, a new machine safety pavilion that brought together in one location major players in the market. The IAPA also launched the new IAPA Russ Ramsay Media Awards. SaferMachines.com covered this event to bring you the highlights. Watch the video. Don't forget to browse through our Health and Safety Canada photo gallery page.
 
Machine safety gets traction at IAPA show
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MASC exhbitors get a chance to demo their safety systems
The new Machine Automation Safety Congress (MASC) kicked off at the IAPA’s Health and Safety Canada 2008 event in Toronto last April, with hundreds of conference attendees stopping by the MASC pavilion and getting some one-on-one time with machine safety experts.

The exhibitors got a chance to demonstrate their products to the conference delegates. Machine safety suppliers also showcased how new technologies such as wireless Ethernet and radio frequency identification are being integrated into machine safety systems.
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Ontario meets injury cuts target, says labour chief
The province of Ontario has met its goal of reducing workplace injuries by 20 per cent over a four-year period, according to Minister of Labour Brad Duguid, as he addressed thousands of health and safety professionals at the opening ceremony of Health and Safety Canada 2008.

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Machine safety technologies gain momentum
Are workplaces catching up with innovation?
Read more...Seatbelts took awhile to catch on when introduced to the market but have become an acknowledged, life-saving device for drivers. Workers in industrial plants, too, have come to accept safety devices as a necessary part of their routine. In some cases, they use them as automatically as seatbelts.


Safety has gone a step further. Continuing with the car analogy, Dave Shanahan says today’s industrial machinery is more parallel with airbags. “The safety is there, almost invisible, but passive, a cushion when a mistake is made,” says the OSH standards project manager with the Canadian Standards Association.
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Building bridges to a safer workplace
New machine safety pavilion a first for Health and Safety Canada 2008

This year’s Health and Safety Canada 2008 will feature the launch of the first-ever Machine Automation Safety Congress (MASC), a joint initiative by Canadian Occupational Safety magazine, Manufacturing Automation magazine, and our new online resource SaferMachines.com.

 

As part of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association’s Health and Safety Canada conference and trade show, the MASC pavilion and exhibit area will feature special hands-on demonstrations where leading suppliers of machine automation safety and safeguarding will showcase their products and answer questions from thousands of conference participants.

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