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Blog Post #129 – A Banner Day for HRS Group Inc. – Registered Blog Comment 10,000!

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I have enough material to create many more blogs but today I have to speak from the heart and this blog is personally aimed at my readers.

I started blogging at the end of November last year, and here we are, August 30th, 2011 and we have 131 blogs to date. This is not the special information I want to pass on to the readers. No, the real deal is that I have just reviewed the 10,000 registered comment! Wow!!! There are comments from all around the world. Russia, Poland, Australia, India, many from England, and much from my friends in the United States as well as my home country of Canada.

Thank you all.

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Blog Post #111 – Guidance for Aggregate Operations in B.C.

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

Improving worker health and safety in British Columbia’s aggregate industry has served as the driving force behind the release of a new guidebook.

The availability of “Health & Safety: A Practical Guide for Aggregate Operations” follows the death of four workers in 2007 in the aggregates industry. The accidents primarily involved gravel truck operators and quarry operations.

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Blog Post #91 – Unfunded Liability Takes A Big Jump

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine

Legislated changes to employee benefits, along with poor investment returns, have caused the unfunded liability of Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to skyrocket more than $2 billion.

The WSIB’s annual report for 2007, released just in October, shows the liability grew from $5.997 billion in 2006 to $8.094 billion in 2007.

Bill 187, affecting the benefits for 155,000 workers, saw payments increase by 2.5 per cent; Bill 221, which ensures firefighters are compensated for work-related cancers and heart attacks, was made retroactive to 1960. Together, the moves increase benefits by $750 million.

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