August 2011 - HRSGroup - Providing Occupational Health and Safety Training

Blog Post #129 – A Banner Day for HRS Group Inc. – Registered Blog Comment 10,000!

August 30, 2011
Dan
Blog, Canadian Health and Safety, Construction, Due Diligence, Employer Responsibilities, Engineering Standards, Excavations, Federal, Health and Safety, Healthcare, Industrial, Mining, Ontario Health and Safety

I have enough material to create many more blogs but today I have to speak from the heart is this is personally aimed at my readers. I started blogging at...

Blog Post #128 – Bunge Canada Fined $70,000 After Worker Seriously Injured

August 27, 2011
Dan
Blog, Canadian Health and Safety, Due Diligence, Employer Responsibilities, Engineering Standards, Events, Federal, Health and Safety, Industrial, Material Handling, Ontario Health and Safety

Excerpt from the Ontario Government’s ‘Newsroom’ Bunge Canada, an Oakville maker of edible oil products, was fined $70,000 on August 18, 2009, for a violation of the Occupational Health and...

Blog Post #127 – Tuong Phat Supermarket Fined $90,000 After Worker Killed

August 26, 2011
Dan
Blog, Canadian Health and Safety, Due Diligence, Employer Responsibilities, Engineering Standards, Events, Federal, Forklift Safety, Health and Safety, Industrial, Ontario Health and Safety

Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’ Tuong Phat Supermarket, of Toronto, was fined $90,000 on August 6, 2009, for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA)...

Blog Post #126 – Fall Protection – Section 26.5 and 26.6 of the Construction Regulation 213/91- Fifth in Series

August 25, 2011
Dan
Blog, Canadian Health and Safety, Construction, Due Diligence, Employer Responsibilities, Employment Standard, Events, Excavations, Fall Protection, Federal, Health and Safety, Working at Heights

Section 26, subsection 5 states, “A guardrail system shall be capable of resisting anywhere along the length of the system the following loads when applied separately, without exceeding the...