As responsible employers and good corporate citizens, our clients face the challenge of providing a safe workplace for their employees, contractors, visitors and the general public.
Pozniak Safety Associates Inc. provides that external assistance to verify that appropriate controls are in place to manage their hazards and risks and meet ever changing legislation requirement.
Inspection Services
We can provide someone that has that objective and unbiased yet skilled eye. Inspecting your work areas for hazards and analyzing the risks is a foundation element of the safety program.
Inspection programs, forms, matrices and databases can be developed and implemented to assist you and your program.
Competent and qualified professionals are available for specific inspections such as machine guarding surveys, confined spaces and lock out tag out points are available.
Investigations
We provide third party unbiased and objective incident investigations and support services to corporate bodies, legal representative, and a wide variety of organizations.
We can conduct loss analysis / trending to determine roots causes, problem areas, trends and assist in control recommendations and the setting of goals and objectives.
Ergonomic Assessments & Programming
Pozniak Safety Associates Inc. provides a wide variety of ergonomics consulting and services to help protect organization’s bottom line and employees’ health and safety. These include:
• Ergonomic Assessments
• Industrial Field Ergonomics
• Office Ergonomics
• Ergonomics Programming
• Fatigue Management
• Facility Design
• Equipment & Workstation Design
• Operating Equipment
Respirator Fit Testing – Quantitative or Qualitative
For any respirator to be effective, it must fit the individual in order to provide the degree of protection it was designed for. All respirators that rely on a mask-to-face seal need to be annually checked with either qualitative or quantitative methods to determine whether the mask provides an acceptable fit to a wearer.
Quantitative Fit Testing uses measuring instruments to measure face seal leakage and provides a fit factor to evaluate when determining fit of mask.
Our technical staff is trained, professional and experienced. We are committed to providing the highest quality fit testing services available.
We are dedicated to ensuring our customers are in complete compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Legislated Respiratory Protection Standards and in accordance with the CSA Standards.
Audiometric Testing
Noise is a common health hazard in the workplace. An effective hearing conservation program is not only a jurisdictional requirement, but it will prevent gradual but permanent hearing loss, tinnitus, and accidents attributable to the inability to hear work instructions or warning alarms.
Our technical staff are trained, professional and experienced. We are committed to providing the highest audiometric testing services available.
We are dedicated to ensuring our customers are in complete compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Legislated hearing conservation standards.
The Testing methods are conducted to noise-exposed workers in accordance with the requirements of Standards such as CSA and ANSI and Baseline testing can be completed on all full-time employees and on Part-time employees if found they are noise-exposed.
The relevant health history and off-the-job exposures shall be obtained for base-line data base information and documentation. However, the results of Audiometric testing is considered to be medical information and will require information handling consistent with all applicable privacy legislation.
Noise Level Survey
Measuring noise levels and workers’ noise exposures is the most important part of a workplace hearing conservation and noise control program. It helps identify work locations where there are noise problems, employees who may be affected, and where additional noise measurements need to be made.
For occupational hygiene purposes, the sound pressure level is measured to determine noise exposures. Various instruments and techniques may be used. The choice depends on the workplace noise and the information needed. However, the first step is to determine if there is a noise problem in the workplace.
The activities undertaken in the noise measurement shall be conducted in accordance with Standards such as CSA and ANSI The noise measurements shall be taken by methods including the testing of noise at workers; ear levels and in all areas of the workplace with particular focus on identified high level noise exposure areas and areas where complaints have been raised.
From the information gained through Noise Measurements conducted a written report is developed which includes the areas and locations tested, the noise level measurements, recommendations for control including engineering, administration and Personal Protective Equipment, and analysis of the equipment in use and the relevant noise level measurements