Introducing Lucid Engineering & Our Safety Consultants

Renée Frigault is the President and principal Machine Safety Consultant for Lucid Engineering. She is a Professional Engineer, holds a Master’s degree in Biomechanical Engineering, and has over 25 years experience working in manufacturing and as a safety consultant. As a machine safety specialist, she has completed over 1000 Pre-start Health and Safety Reviews and machine guarding audits throughout Canada, and in the United States, Mexico and other countries. She has developed educational courses and learning materials in Machine Safety, Industrial Ergonomics, and Lock Out / Tag Out procedures in Addition to delivering over 500 training hours on a range of health and safety related topics. Renée has completed the TÜV SÜD Certification for Functional Safety Engineering, enhancing her expertise in Safety Related Controls. Additionally, she is a member of the CSA committee for Z434 Industrial robots and robot systems and contributed to writing the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) guidelines for Pre-start Health and Safety Reviews (listed as an author).

Sakina Dalal has been a valuable member with Lucid Engineering since 2016. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Master’s degree in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Toronto and is a licensed Professional Engineer. Sakina has extensive experience in authoring reports for Pre-Start Health and Safety Reviews, Machine Guarding Audits, Lockout/Tagout Procedures, and conducting Noise and Weld Assessments. Sakina has completed the TÜV SÜD Certification for Functional Safety Engineering, enhancing her expertise in Safety Related Controls. Previously, Sakina worked with Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health, where she gained extensive experience in workplace safety and regulatory compliance.

Rebecca Lewis is a Machine Safety Consultant with Lucid Engineering. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and is a Professional Engineer. With 20 years of experience in the industry, Rebecca has developed a robust background in electrical controls, programming, and safety systems. Before joining Lucid Engineering, Rebecca worked extensively in the automotive and printing industries, serving primarily as a Plant Engineer. Her roles involved project management, machine installations, debugging, controls design, and addressing machine safety issues. At Lucid Engineering, Rebecca conducts Pre-start Health and Safety Reviews, with a focus on analysing safety control systems which includes safety PLCs, robots and discrete systems using safety relays. She has completed the TÜV SÜD Certification for Functional Safety Engineering, which has further enhanced her expertise in safety-related controls.

Bruno Mastropietro is a Machine Safety Consultant for Lucid Engineering. He is a licensed member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has over 25 years of experience in the fields of mechanical design, project management, maintenance, facility layout, plant engineering, supplier quality assurance, and health and safety. The experience is related to industrial manufacturing in the heavy transport industry, automotive metal stamping and assembly, pump systems for municipal infrastructure and the mining industry, and the plastics industry. As a Machine Safety Consultant, he has completed numerous Pre-start Health and Safety Reviews and machine guarding audits in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and the United States.

After 14 years as a Sr. Machine Safety Consultant with Lucid Engineering Brian Petersen has retired.

Brian is a professional engineer with 20+ years of experience involving automation equipment design and machine safety and has been involved with preparing pre-start health and safety reviews since the legislation took effect in 2000. Brian has completed thousands of pre-start health and safety reviews for organizations large and small, ranging from small assembly stations to large stamping presses to multi-robot welding lines, and has also delivered training courses involving machine safety to equipment designers and management personnel. Brian’s background comes from the shop floor, and recognizes the need for workable, effective solutions.