Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2017)
“HRS Group inc. has hired a retired millwright, Jody Patterson, to be one of our trainers. He was also a health and safety representative for many years and is totally familiar with the requirements for safety programs and processes.
It is because of him I have decided to use this next report that deals with welding fumes and other airborne hazards that may occur around the welding process.”
Dan Beal
CHSEP – Advanced
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker died from injuries sustained in an explosion at a workplace. The construction supervisor of Infrastructure Coatings (Ontario) Corporation failed, as a supervisor, to ensure that a fire extinguisher was provided at a project where open-flame operations were carried out, as prescribed by Ontario Regulation 213/91 and contrary to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Jan. 2017)
Nearly three months after the death of a sewer worker, the City of Edmonton announced a review of the safety culture of municipal workplaces on January 25, 2017. But a spokesperson says the review, which will examine the three distinct areas of people, processes, and technology, is not a response to the sewer tragedy, but a part of a general safety initiative that the city has already launched.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July 2016)
The village of Torquay in southern Saskatchewan was fined $30,000 on June 06, 2016, and incident in which the exposure to hydrogen sulfide claimed a worker two years ago.