Safety Engineering Consulting Services

Safety engineers help to provide safe workplace environments by ensuring all processes, equipment, and workplaces comply with applicable regulatory requirements, technical safety standards, and industry best practices. Safety engineering typically involves actively assessing hazards that may be present and taking action to manage the risk those hazards pose to personnel in the workplace, preventing accidents, injuries, and lost time occurrences. Our safety engineers design all safety protocols for audits while providing safety training in the workplace. Our team works with management and staff to incorporate safety engineering principles into daily operations and promote a culture of safety and compliance across industries.

While both positions are tasked with ensuring the workplace is safe, the safety engineer provides more technical support in terms of the design and implementation of safety systems. The safety officer is typically more concerned with the day-to-day implementation of safety rules. At HITE Engineering, our safety engineers analyze risks, design protective measures, and recommend appropriate engineering controls such that all technical requirements described in the applicable regulations are met. Safety officers implement these protocols in the field by inspecting to ensure that all workers follow known safety practices. Safety engineering is geared toward long-term control of risk with technical solutions, whereas safety officers enforce day-to-day operational compliance.

Safety engineering is based on hazard identification, risk assessment, accident prevention, and continuous improvement. We are focused on eliminating hazards at source, implementing engineering controls, and designing fail-safe systems. Safety engineering also focuses on proactive risk management, employee training, and regulatory compliance. We put safety into every design stage and operation of our projects, thus creating robust systems that protect people, assets, and the environment. Collaboration, innovation, and regular audits, therefore, ensure safe and efficient workplaces.

OSHA divides its safety standards into four major sectors: general industry, construction, maritime, and agriculture. HITE Engineering meets all categories within different industries. General Industries apply to nearly all workplaces and ensure there are possible common hazards for machine safety and hazardous materials. Construction standards address specifics for the building site, thus regulating the potential risks for fall protection. Maritime standards make shipping and marine terminals safe, and agricultural standards cover the latter in farming operations. In any one of these work environments, safety engineering is aligned with OSHA requirements to create a safer workplace.

HITE Engineering provides a broad range of industries throughout the construction, manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare, and agriculture sectors with safety engineering services. Our capabilities ensure compliance as well as risk mitigation for all industrial operating environments. Structural safety assessments are provided for construction projects, and equipment safety audits for manufacturing facilities. The energy sector utilizes our skills in hazardous material management, while healthcare institutions rely on us for biohazard safety protocols. We apply safety principles to design fit-for-purpose safety solutions that preserve the workforce, assets, and integrity of an operation.

Our engineers at HITE Engineering believe that one of the factors that highly contributes to minimizing operational downtime is having a proactive plan for safety-ensuring workplaces, which ensures that costly incidents are prevented for the employees and provides assurance of their welfare. Proper safety engineering makes the workplace risk-free, with smart system design and risk assessment in addition to the use of fail-safe measures. Besides complying with regulations, it brings responsibility and care to individuals. Our professional safety engineering capability enables organizations to set up a workplace that is at once productive and secure.

At HITE Engineering, our diverse professional team provides broad expertise across all Ontario Regulations, with specialties in O. Reg. 851 (Industrial Establishments), O. Reg. 213/07 (the Ontario Fire Code), O. Reg. 332/12 (the Ontario Building Code), and many more. And while our core services provide specific exposure to the jurisdictional requirements unique to Ontario, HITE regularly provides safety engineering services and consultation meeting requirements across Canada and the world.

Our expertise with applicable regulations provides the basis for our understanding of the legal requirements pertinent to our client’s needs, but HITE also maintains an extensive library of technical safety standards applicable across all jurisdictions. Our consultants maintain a working knowledge and regularly reference a variety of standards provided by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and many more.

We strive at all times to maintain a thorough technical understanding of all of these resources so that we can provide our services with the highest level of value to our clients.

Safety engineering is the process of analyzing and designing to ensure that equipment and systems are safe for people and the environment within which they are used. In manufacturing facilities, this often takes the form of a systematic approach to identifying and implementing safeguards and procedures that are aimed at preventing workplace accidents and protecting workers.

When safety engineering is a core element of equipment design and implementation, it provides the opportunity to integrate monitoring and control systems, creative and functional machine guarding, and thoughtful work procedures that reduce the risk of exposure to the hazards that are so prevalent in our industrial environments today.

Yes. In nearly all aspects of the professional services HITE provides, “off the shelf” solutions are typically not applicable as some level of customization and creative problem-solving is required. Fortunately, with the technical expertise provided by our team, we are highly capable in working with our clients to examine the needs, requirements, and risks associated with any given project and provide sound solutions.

For all projects related to industrial safeguarding, HITE Engineering follows the Risk Assessment methodologies outlined in the relevant technical safety standards such as CSA Z432, ISO 13849-1, and ISO 12100. These methodologies help us complement our efforts to meet the functional requirements described by our clients with appropriate risk reduction measures. And where necessary, our team is also able to employ alternative risk assessment methodologies, such as ‘Task Based Risk Assessments’ when a broader perspective is required to ensure we provide solutions with adequate protections.

A broad range of Industries throughout the construction, manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation sectors benefit greatly from HITE’s safety engineering services. These sectors face significant operational hazards, and HITE’s expertise in risk assessment, compliance with safety regulations, and implementing protective systems ensures the risks related to those hazards are mitigated by reducing accidents and operational disruptions.

Safety engineering is one of the components involved in the management of risks associated with industrial systems. It encompasses the assessment of possible dangers, determination of risks and their control measures. Safety engineering also provides effective control within systems by designing safe systems, performing safety audits, and enforcing compliance with rules and regulations. In the end, the approaches help to enhance safety among employees, reduce incidents, and protect the operation along with the assets of the facility.