Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (December 2016)
A large grain farm in the village of Leask, Saskatchewan was fined $1,500 on October 06, 2016, for failing to report a workplace incident to the province’s oh&s authorities two years earlier.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (December 2016)
A large grain farm in the village of Leask, Saskatchewan was fined $1,500 on October 06, 2016, for failing to report a workplace incident to the province’s oh&s authorities two years earlier.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Impala Canada Ltd., of Toronto Ontario, a mining company that operates the Lac Des Iles Mine, an open-pit and underground palladium mine, suffered critical injuries after falling from a scissor lift work platform while installing a silencer on a fan in the Lac Des Iles Mine’s ventilation system. At the time, the guardrails on the scissor lift platform had been removed. Impala Canada Ltd. failed to ensure measures and procedures prescribed by the Mines and Mining Plants Regulation were carried out in the workplace.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker sustained fatal injuries operating a personnel lift while preparing to spray paint a railcar. National Steel Car Limited failed to maintain in good condition the safety release button inside the personnel lift, contrary to section 25(1) (b) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
As a certified propane trainer in ‘Heaters and Torches’ and Propane Filling’, among others, it is my job to review tanks as part of the inspection program prior to use. HRS Group Inc., is a health and safety training and consulting company in the Peterborough area and we are constantly on our toes for safety … Continue Reading