Build a Safer Facility.
Facility Safety
& Risk Assessment
Nor-Cal Controls + ROSS Controls
Nor-Cal Controls partners with ROSS Controls to provide manufacturers with access to specialized machine safety expertise, risk-assessment support, and safety technology. We help engineering, maintenance, and EHS teams identify potential machine hazards, evaluate existing safety systems, and develop practical recommendations for reducing risk.
Is Your Facility's Machine Safety Up to Date?
Manufacturing equipment evolves. Machines are modified, production processes change, new equipment is added, and safety systems can become outdated or inconsistent over time.
Our goal is to give your team a clearer picture of where risks exist, what those risks involve, and what should be evaluated next.
- Machines with potential safety hazards
- Gaps in pneumatic, hydraulic, or electrical energy isolation
- Existing safety systems that may require evaluation
- Electrical panel and control-system concerns
- Inconsistent safety practices between machines
- Stored-energy and unexpected-motion hazards
- Areas requiring additional safety controls or components
A Structured Path to Safer Operations
Identify
We review your machines, processes, and existing safety systems to identify potential hazards.
Assess
Potential hazards are evaluated using a structured risk-assessment approach, considering severity, exposure, existing safeguards, and the ability to avoid the hazard.
Document
Findings are documented so your engineering, maintenance, and EHS teams have a clear record of identified concerns and recommended actions.
Recommend
Based on the assessment, practical technical recommendations can be developed around specific machine, application, and safety concern.
Support
Nor-Cal Controls can support your team with component selection, application guidance, technical documentation, and sourcing. Implementation and final validation remain with the customer's qualified engineering and maintenance resources.
What We Evaluate
Pneumatic & Hydraulic Safety
Evaluate stored energy, isolation, exhaust, pressure, and unexpected actuator movement.
Electrical Panels & Controls
Review electrical panels, control architecture, wiring, safety-related controls, and machine control systems for potential concerns.
Machine Safety Systems
Review emergency-stop functions, safety circuits, safety valves, pressure monitoring, and other safety-related components.
Operator & Maintenance Hazards
Identify potential risks associated with machine access, point-of-operation areas, maintenance activities, and unexpected movement.
Energy Isolation
Evaluate pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical energy-isolation practices and potential residual energy concerns.
Existing Equipment
Assess machines that have been modified, rebuilt, relocated, or are operating with legacy safety systems.
Facility-Wide Consistency
Identify opportunities to create more consistent approaches to machine safety across multiple machines, production lines, or buildings.
From Assessment to Action
A safety assessment should do more than identify a problem. Our objective is to give your team a clear understanding of what was identified, why it matters, and what should be considered next.
This gives your team a practical starting point for planning future safety improvements.
Request a Facility Safety Assessment- Machine-by-machine findings
- Identified hazards
- Risk classifications
- Photographic documentation
- Existing safety system observations
- Recommended corrective actions
- Suggested safety technologies
- Component recommendations
- Prioritization of potential improvements
Your Local Partner. Factory Safety Expertise.
Nor-Cal Controls
- Customer relationship
- Application support
- Pneumatic and automation expertise
- Component selection
- Sourcing and availability
- Ongoing local support
ROSS Controls
- Machine safety technology
- Pneumatic safety solutions
- Safety assessment support
- Risk-reduction expertise
- Safety application knowledge
- Factory technical resources
Together, we help bridge the gap between identifying a machine safety concern and determining practical solutions.
Give Your Team the Tools to Work Smarter and Safer
Safety improvements don't stop with identifying a hazard. Through our partnership with ROSS Controls, Nor-Cal Controls can connect customer teams with available safety education, training programs, and technical learning resources from the factory.
Machine Safety Fundamentals
Help engineering, maintenance, and safety teams build a stronger understanding of machine safety principles and common hazards.
Pneumatic Safety Training
Learn how pneumatic energy, isolation, exhaust, and safety components affect machine operation and operator protection.
Risk Assessment Education
Develop a better understanding of how machine hazards are identified, evaluated, and addressed.
Safety Technology Training
Improve your team's understanding of safety valves, controls, energy isolation, and other technologies used in machine safety applications.
Ongoing Technical Resources
Give your team access to factory-developed educational materials and training opportunities as they become available.
Safety Technology & Application Support
Following an assessment, Nor-Cal Controls can help your team evaluate appropriate technologies and components for identified applications. Our role is to help your team understand the available technology and identify components appropriate for the application.
Pneumatic Safety
Safety dump valves, isolation, soft-start/dump systems, and pneumatic energy management.
Pressure & Energy Monitoring
Pressure switches, sensors, and technologies used to monitor safe operating conditions.
Safety Controls
Safety-related valves, control components, emergency-stop applications, and associated machine safety technologies.
Fluid Power
Pneumatic and hydraulic components associated with machine movement, stored energy, and energy isolation.
From a Single Machine to Your Entire Facility
Single Machine
Evaluate a specific machine with a known safety concern.
Production Line
Assess multiple interconnected machines and their associated safety systems.
Facility
Develop a broader understanding of machine safety across manufacturing operations.
Multi-Building Assessment
Systematically evaluate equipment across multiple buildings or production areas.
A Local Technical Partner for Machine Safety
Machine safety doesn't exist independently from the rest of the machine. Pneumatic circuits, valves, actuators, sensors, electrical systems, controls, hydraulics, and stored energy all interact with the equipment and its safety architecture. Nor-Cal Controls combines experience across these technologies with access to specialized factory resources through our partnership with ROSS Controls — giving your team a local technical resource backed by dedicated safety expertise.
Your West Coast
Automation Partner
Nor-Cal Controls helps manufacturers, engineers, labs, and OEMs move faster with trusted automation products, local inventory, technical expertise, and value-added assembly services. From critical components to custom-built solutions, NCC delivers the speed, quality, and support needed to keep advanced industries moving.
When you need more than a catalog, you need a partner who has the parts, knows the application, and responds when it matters.
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Need a Factory Safety Audit? Nor-Cal Controls can help.