User:Macadk

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General
Macadk is a longtime Macintosh Evangelista. Running a small consulting and training company in Kitchener, Ontario Canada, where he provides consulting services, writes a popular technical blog, and provides related face-to-face and online training with his partner, Macadk specializes in industrial machinery safety, including risk assessment, safeguarding, functional safety, laser safety and technical standardization. Macadk is also a recognized CE Marking expert under the Machinery Directive (MD), Low Voltage Directive (LVD) , Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) , Radio Equipment Directive (RED) , Pressure Equipment (PED) , Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) and Equipment for Use Outdoors Directives. He also has experience in the application of WEEE, and RoHS Directives related to industrial machinery.

Updated: 20:02, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Standards Development Activities
Macadk sits on a number of technical committees, including
 * CSA Z432 Safeguarding of Machinery, expert member,
 * W117.2 Safety in Welding, Cutting and Allied Processes, past expert member,
 * CSA C22.2 No. 301 Electrical Equipment of Machinery, expert member.

Macadk is currently the Vice-Chair of the CSA Z1002 Occupational health and safety - Hazard identification and elimination and risk assessment and control technical committee.

Mackadk represents Canada as
 * Chair of the Canadian Standard Mirror Committee to ISO/TC 199 Safety of machinery, SMC Chair 2015-2021, and
 * Vice-Chair of the Canadian Standard Mirror Committee to ISO/TC 270 Plastics and rubber machines . SMC Chair 2015-2021.

Macadk sits as an expert member of the Canadian Standard Mirror Committee to
 * ISO Committee on consumer policy (COPOLCO).
 * ISO/PC 329 Consumer incident investigation.
 * ISO/TC 83/WG 6 where he also serves as Convener Support Team to WG6, Benefit-Risk Assessment in Sport and Recreation ,
 * IEC/TC 65/SC 65A, Industrial-process measurement, control and automation—System aspects and
 * IEC/TC 121/SC 121B, Switchgear and controlgear and their assemblies for low voltage—Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies.

Macadk has been advocating for the creation of a Canadian National Committee to IEC/TC 44, Safety of machinery - Electrotechnical aspects. Please get in touch if you are interested in this work.

Updated 20:00, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Professional Activities
Member of
 * the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) since 1991.
 * the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2004 and a Senior Member since 2014.
 * Charter Member of the [|IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES)] and Chair of the 2009 PSES Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering held in Toronto, Ontario in October of that year.

Updated: 20:12, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Personal
Personal home page

Twitter profile

LinkedIn profile.

Websites
Compliance InSight Consulting Inc.

Machinery Safety 101 blog/podcast

Twitter
Compliance inSight Consulting

Machinery Safety 101

Wikipedia projects
IEEE PSES Article

"Kill switches", emergency stops, etc.

Updated: 20:19, 10 September 2021 (UTC)