Posts Categorized As: Engineering Standards

Blog Post #33 – Another Radioactive Spill in Lake Ontario Poses No Harm. Really!!!

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

This happened back in November of 2009 but it goes to show that radioactive leaks happen far too often. My first blog on the accidental release of radioactivity material centred around the Bruce Power Station. This particular blog takes place November of 2009 at the Darlington nuclear station in Clarington, Ontario.

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Blog Post #32 – EFCO Canada Company – Fines for Health & Safety

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

A Nova Scotia maker of steel forms, used in construction, was fined $45,000 on August 21, 2009, for a violation of the Occupational Health & Safety (OHSA) In March 2008. A constructor was building an intake line from the Welland Canal to the Thorold Cogeneration power site. To do this, they needed to install a cofferdam, a structure built below water level that serves as a dry workplace. EFCO designed and provided the parts for the cofferdam. On March 28, 2008, the constructor had installed the cofferdam and was removing the water inside it when the cofferdam failed. No workers were hurt.

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