Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Admiral Welding & Mfg. Inc., a Beamsville-based company, was fined $40,000 on July 16, 2010, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a co-op student was injured.
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Admiral Welding & Mfg. Inc., a Beamsville-based company, was fined $40,000 on July 16, 2010, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a co-op student was injured.
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Paris Holdings (2113467 Ontario Inc.) and Sergerie Mechanical (1633777 Ontario Inc.), both Cornwall-based companies, were fined $60,000 and $50,000 respectively on July 14, 2010, for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused injuries to a worker. Supervisor Tim Sergerie was fined $6,000 for a related offense.
Section 26.3, subsection 8 states,
“The following additional requirements apply to a guardrail system that is made of wire rope:
1) The top rail and intermediate rail shall be made of wire rope that is at least 10 mm in diameter, and the rope shall be kept taut by a turnbuckle or other device.
2) The outward deflection of the top rail and the intermediate rail resulting from the loads specified in subsection (5) shall not exceed beyond the edge of a work surface.
3) The system shall have vertical separators at intervals of not more than 2.4 metres and horizontal supports at intervals or not more than 9 metres.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
British Columbia’s forest industry is looking to bring faller safety up a notch with the release of a new program. Last December, officials for the British Columbia Forest Safety Council (BCFSC) announced plans to pilot a re-evaluation system to assess faller skills. The expectation is that the pilot will be completed this year and the re-evaluation program will be fully operational and mandatory starting in 2009.