Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Caterpillar Tunneling Canada Corporation, a Toronto-based company that designs and builds tunnel boring machines (TBMs) used to dig underground circular tunnels, was fined $130,000 on December 22, 2011, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
My point of view,
This is the second time I have used this particular article to discuss the difficult topic of ‘Confined Space Entry’. It has become my favourite course to teach and I will continue to do my part to get the word out that training, above all, must be the major step when workers are around or in a ‘Confined Space’.
Please take your time and review. The article is almost 6 years old but it is just as important today as it was then.
Daniel L. Beal
Senior Trainer at HRS Group Inc.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Two paramedics in Calgary were taken to hospital after being exposed to carbon monoxide (CO) gas.
Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine
By: Jason Contant
On the morning of September 5, 2008, a plumber was called to A-1 Mushroom Substratum Ltd. in Langley, British Columbia for the second time in as many days. There, he found an intake pipe at the bottom of a pump shed completely blocked and informed a supervisor at the mushroom composting facility that a company with expertise in sewer pump-out would be needed.