Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A contract worker who was trapped inside a Saskatchewan gold mill for about 10 hours later returned to the site to help with the investigation.
Blog Post #327 – Resform and Supervisor Fined $53,000 Total after Worker Injured
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Resform Construction Ltd., a Cookstown construction company specializing in formwork, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. Justin Lowes, a supervisor with the company, was fined $3,000 in relation to the same incident.
Blog Post #326 – Final Descent – The Best Article on Confined Space Entry
My point of view,
This is the second time I have used this particular article to discuss the difficult topic of ‘Confined Space Entry’. It has become my favourite course to teach and I will continue to do my part to get the word out that training, above all, must be the major step when workers are around or in a ‘Confined Space’.
Please take your time and review. The article is almost 6 years old but it is just as important today as it was then.
Daniel L. Beal
Senior Trainer at HRS Group Inc.
Blog Post #325 – Treat an Incident like an Accident
This will be my last blog for the year and I wanted to make this one a little more personal.
Angela and I went out for dinner the other night and a minor incident took place. A large plastic snowflake fell onto one of the tables where, just a few moments earlier, a large family was sitting. I went over to the broken snowflake, picked up most of the pieces and called over the nearest waitress. An explanation was given that Angela and I are health and safety professionals and suggested that the issue should be handled the same as an accident would have. As I mentioned to the waitress, the incident barely missed the family by only a few minutes. I also mentioned that there were five or six other snowflakes hanging in the restaurant and the same thing could happen to one of them with much direr consequences.