I hate arguing safety!
I am a controls engineer and at my current place of work we argue about safety all the time. My current battle is in the form of a standalone piece of equipment in for refurbishment handed to me as a Prior Operating System. I don’t have the experience to put my foot down and point to a standard; all that I know is 2nd or 3rd hand knowledge from just doing the job. I would like to have some formal training so I can get a foothold allowing me to design safe equipment. Dose anyone have any sugestons?
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Alex, are you looking for something specific like machine guarding or just general OSHA overview?
Alex I worked with engineers all the time for a lot of years! I recruited and hired an awful lot of them! I am with John to answer your question I would need more info? Do you have an engineering BS? In what? When I worked in the Corporate world if you said you were an Engineer you had a BS in some sort of engineering, the big ones being usually Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Civil, and sometimes Nuclear, Computer, Electronics (off shoots of Electrical), Ag, Medical (off shoots of Mechanical), Construction (an offshoot of Civil) and many many more! Many like BSME have "trade standards" to know like SME = Society of Mechanical Engineers or SAE Society of Automotive Engineers (look at a can of oil it will say SAE 10w30). In smaller companies often people call themselves "Engineers" but only have AS degrees or some sort of technical education. They are "technicians" to degreed Engineers. I am not saying that is right but the way of things! There is Safety Engineering.
NIOSH has a lot of information on Prevention through Design.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/programs/ptdesign/default.html
I think ASSP has a Prevention through Design training class.
Alex! I remember you were one of the first people to join SK - talk about OG! Glad you made it back :)
You should check out an OSHA 511 class. It gives a pretty broad overview of “general industry” (manufacturing would be included in there) and might give you some better regulatory background so you can help make suggestions