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Blog Post #453 – Avoiding the Fall

April 20, 2020April 20, 2014 by Dan

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine By Jason Contant One need only look back to last Christmas Eve in Toronto for a grisly example of why proper fall protection is so very important. It was the afternoon of December 24, 2009 when a swing stage separated in the middle, sending five construction workers plummeting 13 … Continue Reading

Blog Post #452 – Worker Hit by Concrete Slab

April 20, 2020April 19, 2014 by Dan

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

A worker at a Winnipeg construction site was taken to hospital for treatment after a concrete slab fell on him while inside a trench.

Blog Post #451 – Basecrete Inc. and Westin Homes Ltd. Fined $85,000 after Worker Injured

April 20, 2020April 12, 2014 by Dan

Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Basecrete Inc., a Woodbridge concrete and drain construction company, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. Westin Homes Ltd., a Bradford residential constructor, was fined $35,000 in relation to the same incident.

Blog Post #450 – Working at Heights Legislation

April 20, 2020March 19, 2014 by Dan

The new Ontario ‘Working at Heights’ legislation looks to be enacted around the June, 2014 timeframe in the Ontario ‘Construction’ regulation 213/91. There will be a 2 year grandfather grace period for compliance attached. (anyone after May 31, 2016 must have the new ‘Working at Heights’ standard which will include a 3 year renewal. That, in itself, is a big change as the original ‘Fall Protection’ record of training (ROT) was non-renewable.)

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