Technical Safety BC

Great work to Colin, thank you so much for the quick turnaround on resolving safety issues for my family, your ongoing and continuous is well received and tremendously appreciated!

Typical out to lunch, slow, unresponsive, red tape lined government bureaucracy with little impact or meaning other than to justify their own existence.

I have been on hold for over two hours to get product approvals taken out that were expedited through design registration. If you cannot have people on the phone lines who can help us, then MOVE PRODUCT APPROVALS AND ALL OTHER TYPES OF PERMITS ONLINE. Worst customer service ever.

This is another out to lunch Safety Committee. On their gas exam, they have tonnes of questions about piping designs. They expect students to memorize those designs for the exams, but in real life, the designs can be without limit, based on FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE. In real life, it is the fundamental science that is important, NOT YOUR HANDFUL OF DESIGNS. That is why when those people are out in the work force, if the designs change, then they have NO idea what is going on! Memorizing designs without real understanding based on fundamental science is a FAKE QUALIFICATION! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My response to your response: I wrote your Gas Exam. I passed, but I find it extremely UN-USEFUL. You even ask people to memorize the code names of the piping. I mean, who cares. Code names are different based on the manufacturer. What students should know is the material based chemistry, and the possible chemical reactions involved because substances react with each other, for example, certain material oxidizes more easily than others, and what are the results of oxidation? Another example, the hottest flame is blue flame, but why? Well, it is due to the fact that blue flame has the shortest wave length, i.e. contains highest energy compared to other colors of flame due to complete chemical reaction of natural gas with oxygen. Therefore, little or NO CO is produced. When you teach fundamental science with reason behind it, students have REAL ability, and they will remember it for the rest of their lives, instead of them having NO idea what is going on. Also why is methane (CH4) more clean burning than ethane, propane, butane, etc.? That is because the combustion process involves the breaking of C-H bonds to form CO2 and H2O. Therefore, if the gas molecule has more C-H bonds, then it produces more energy, but there is also more carbon deposit due to the greater number of C-C bonds. This is the basic fundamental scientific principles. Once students know this, then the requirement to change the orifice size to produce the same energy when using a different type of natural gas becomes obvious. Fundamental science comes first, then you slowly build on it, instead of building everything without much foundation. Relying on straight memorization is the worst because it is like building a house on sand that will soon collapse!

I spoke with Dennis Dornbusch regaurding my "class A" pressure welding examination. Dennis is a very knowledgable man with years in the pressure welding industry who was eager to share what he knew. Dennis set my questions straight and ensured me that he was working towards a solution for my problems. Unfortunately the call centre employees for TSBC were fairly uninformed on the topic and I had to phone 11 times before speaking to Dennis, there were several occasions in which I was promised a call back only to never receive one. All in all after speaking to the right person I got some of the answers I was looking for.

Don't waste your money on electrical permits with this business. They don't show up and they can not be held liable should something go wrong after they inspect and approve the installation. They just create bureaucracy, ways to waste your money and make it MORE EXPENSIVE. They now demand electricians that have a FSR certificate to pay $100 to renew their certificate. They must think that all Electrical contractors will pay these fees for the individuals and technical safety has nothing to offer them for paying this $100. A Journeyman, red seal, inter provincial or FSR certificate all perform their work from the latest code book. In fact, technical safety should be required to take out a permit. I don't believe they are qualified to do electrical installations.

A complete waste of money. Report a boiler issue where human life is at risk. Air pressure switches jumped, safety valves capped. Boiler ruptured. Typical out to lunch unrealistic bone heads running this.