Posts Categorized As: Engineering Standards

Blog Post #749 – Study Probes Fracking

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

Nova Scotia is commissioning a review on the health, social, economic and environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing.

Commonly known as “fracking”, the process involves pumping fluid or gas down a well to fracture rock below ground to access natural gas. “We have heard from Nova Scotians that they want to have their say and that review should be independent of government; we’ve listened on both counts,” Department of Energy Minister Charlie Parker said on August 28, 2013.

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Blog Post #731 – Swing N Scaff Inc., Company Director Fined Total of $400,000 in Deaths of Four Workers

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Swing N Scaff Inc., the Ottawa-based company that supplied the swing stage platform that collapsed on December 24, 2009, resulting in the deaths of four workers and significant injuries to another, has been fined $350,000 in Old City Hall court. A company director, Patrick Deschamps, has been fined $50,000.

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Blog Post #728 – Subway Construction Death and Injury, Safety Violation Result in Guilty Pleas, $420,000 in Fines

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

The 2011 death of a worker and injury to another at a Toronto Transit Commission subway construction site in North York has resulted in a guilty plea and a $400,000 fine. A subsequent, separate safety violation by the same company has resulted in a guilty plea and a $20,000 fine.

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