Machine guarding, lockout, PPE and noise, WHMIS, confined spaces, incident reporting. Floor staff get a straight answer from your handbook — with the source, the governing regulation, and a push to the Health & Safety Coordinator whenever it actually matters.
Tap the chat bubble in the bottom-right corner, then try a question below.
Answered from Kestrel's own documents — with the source shown under each reply.
In a machine shop, a confidently wrong answer is an amputation. Every rule in this demo was verified against the published regulation text on Ontario e-Laws — not a blog, not a training vendor, not the model's memory. The assistant names the authority it is relying on and how current it is.
| Topic | Governing authority | Version relied on |
|---|---|---|
| Machine guarding — exposed moving parts | R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 851 (Industrial Establishments), s. 24 | Consolidation from 1 Jul 2022; last amendment O. Reg. 374/22 |
| Nip and pinch points | Reg. 851, s. 25 | As above |
| Ejected product & waste stock | Reg. 851, s. 26 | As above |
| Emergency stops; controls used as guards | Reg. 851, s. 27 & 28 | As above |
| Lockout & hazardous energy | Reg. 851, s. 75 & 76 | As above |
| Pre-Start Health and Safety Review | Reg. 851, s. 7 and its Table | s. 7 amended by O. Reg. 434/21 and O. Reg. 374/22 |
| PPE | Reg. 851, s. 79–84 | As above |
| Noise & hearing protection | O. Reg. 381/15 (Noise) — 85 dBA Lex,8 | Consolidation from 1 Jul 2016; no amendments |
| Confined spaces | O. Reg. 632/05 (Confined Spaces) | Consolidation from 1 Jul 2016; last amendment O. Reg. 346/15 |
| WHMIS | R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 860 (WHMIS) | Consolidation from 21 Jan 2019; last amendment O. Reg. 3/19 |
| Critical injuries & reporting | OHSA s. 51–53.1; O. Reg. 420/21 | MOL guidance updated 2 Jan 2024 |
And what it refuses to answer. Where a judgement call belongs to an engineer or a named human, it is deliberately left out — and the assistant says so instead of guessing. Ask it "does this press need a pre-start health and safety review?": the handbook explains what a PSR is and that an engineer must sign it, so the assistant explains that and sends the decision to Engineering rather than ruling on it.
The failure mode here isn't a slow answer. It's a confident wrong one that costs somebody a hand.
It answers from your handbook and safety procedures — not the internet. If it isn't in your documents, it won't say it.
Safety answers come with the governing regulation and how current the summary is — plus a reminder to confirm anything carrying a penalty.
Ask it whether a guard can come off to clear a jam, whether a stopped machine counts as locked out, or whether a two-hand control can be taped down, and it declines, explains why, and points to a supervisor.
Nine fictional Kestrel documents. For a real shop, we load your handbook and procedures in their place.
Sources, authority, currency — and what is deliberately not covered.
Exposed moving parts, nip points, e-stops, two-hand controls, grinding wheels, and when a pre-start review is triggered.
Why stopped isn't isolated, the seven energies on this floor, personal locks, and never removing someone else's.
What's required where, the gloves-at-rotating-machinery rule, the 85 dBA limit, and fit testing.
Labels, safety data sheets, coolant dermatitis, spills, and first aid after an exposure.
What counts as one, the entry permit, the attendant — and why you never enter to pull someone out.
Reporting everything, critical injuries, scene preservation, fire, and the three worker rights.
Job packets and revisions, first-off inspection, nonconforming parts, housekeeping, shift handover.
Shifts, breaks, pay, fitness for work, respect, training, and how to raise a problem.
This is one application with a document pack per industry. Swap the documents and the same assistant serves a cleaning crew, a carrier, a warehouse or a machine shop — the grounding, citations and refusal behaviour come along unchanged.