Helping people go home safely. Every night.
Three countries. One mission. Born and raised in India, forged on the front lines in Qatar, and now home in Saskatchewan, Canada — the “Land of Living Skies.”
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering — and a first job the same year, as a Safety Engineer.
M.Tech in Industrial Engineering, earned after hours while working full-time.
PhD fusing material science with occupational safety — plus the NEBOSH Diploma alongside, every unit passed first try. Then, Doha.
Safety Officer on Doha roadworks with Traffic Tech Gulf — inspections, investigations, trust across cultures.
Permanent Resident, then the CRSP®; Safety & Asset Protection Advisor at Tolko (Meadow Lake OSB). Now building MAPLE & MIND.
Creator of MAPLE — a practical incident investigation model (Moment · Actions · Protection · Lessons · Enhancement) built for remote sites and small crews.
Open MAPLECreator of MIND (Mental well-being · Insight · Nurture · Dignity) — a narrative-based assessment tool grounded in CSA Z1003, ISO 45003 and ILO best practice.
Open MIND“Ensuring that people go home safely every night… is a very rewarding and meaningful career.”
— Dr. Ram Kumar Barathan, in his NEBOSH case studyAsk an industrial engineer to explain a career, and he'll give you a framework. Every workplace — and every chapter of Ram's life — runs on six M's.
Where it started. How machines work, how they wear, and how they can hurt — or protect — the people around them.
How work is designed — process, method, system. Design the method well and safety follows; design it badly and no poster can save you.
What the world is made of. His PhD turned natural fibres into glass-fibre composites strong enough to silence a generator.
The one the other M's exist for. Noise, ergonomics, psychological safety — protecting the man inside the system.
Always Mother Nature. Sugarcane bagasse, eggshell, water hyacinth — nature was his first laboratory, and still sets the standard.
“A safer workplace, in a cost-effective way” — his own words. Resources are finite; good safety respects money, in plants and in portfolios alike.
The 6M is how Ram thinks. The 2M is what he built from it — MAPLE & MIND, two deliberately simple tools that put clear, structured answers in the hands of the people who need them most: frontline leaders and workers. No jargon. No logins. No waiting for an expert.
Profiled by the institutions that certify safety professionals — in his own words.
Official NEBOSH case study on Ram's journey — engineering, a doctorate, and the Diploma that opened doors from India to Qatar to Canada.
Read the case studyA certificant feature by the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals. Ram is one of just over 8,800 CRSP® certificants in the designation's 50-year history. “For me, the CRSP is not just about recognition — it is about responsibility.”
Read the featureRam's own project: free, privacy-by-design safety tools — MAPLE for incident investigation, MIND for psychological health & safety. Made in Saskatchewan, for the world.
Visit mapleandmind.caTeaches stretches & asanas that prevent musculoskeletal disorders
Travel films shot on mobile — 11 countries, 3 of the 7 Wonders of the World
Reader, walker, and a patient student of investing
A channel documenting the journey — travel & health in so-called LIFE
For opportunities, collaboration, or a conversation about safer workplaces — find Ram where he already is.