Posts Categorized As: Canadian Health and Safety

Blog Post #1438 – Improving Indoor Air Quality – Part 3

Article from the OH&S Canada magazine – (Fall – 2022)

Written by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

“Increase the Introductions of Outdoor Air”

Natural ventilation can be maximized in order to improve indoor air quality. Open outdoor air dampers beyond minimum settings to reduce or eliminate HVAC air circulation.

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Blog Post #1434 – Mine Contracting and Engineering Company Fined $110,000 after Workplace Injury near Matachewan

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Cementation Canada Inc., of Toronto Ontario, fell 4.09 metres from a raised platform and was injured. Cementation Canada Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that a fall arrest system was used at the workplace to protect workers exposed to a fall greater than three metres. Cementation Canada Inc. is an underground mine contracting and engineering company with offices in North Bay and Sudbury.

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