A parking lot worker fell down an elevator shaft and died. The CSST concluded that the incident was caused by another worker who bypassed the mechanical locking system of the elevator’s back door and by the employer’s lack of OHS management. The CSST issued the …

At the beginning of a new year, people often make personal resolutions, such as losing weight, saving more money or finding love, and work-related resolutions, such as getting a better job or a promotion. But companies can also resolve to change their ways. For example, …

By Barbara Semeniuk, BSc CRSP It’s the beginning of the new year and we all make resolutions. I have an excellent plan for keeping mine: do the things that are bad for me and more of them. So this year I intend to be more …

The government published streamlined Canadian Aviation Security Regulations, 2012 that introduce aviation security programs at airports. Such programs will include an airport security awareness program, airport security committee, defined security roles and responsibilities, and management of sensitive aviation security information. Although many of these systems …

One of a safety coordinator’s most important jobs is assessing safety risks in the workplace and ensuring that appropriate measures are in place to address identified risks. But do you know how to conduct an effective risk assessment?The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has developed a …

The IWH is teaming up with for four health and safety associations to conduct the “5,000 Firm Study,” which will focus on understanding how companies’ health, safety and disability policies and practices are related to injuries and illness. Firms will be randomly selected from the …

OHS Regulation The government extended the deadline for comments on the new OHS Regulations to Jan. 10, 2011. A digest of this feedback is now available. Forty-eight stakeholders provided approximately 750 comments.

Enforcement efforts, prosecutions and coroner’s inquests all can lead to recommendations for the implementation of new controls contained in the hierarchy and, in some cases, may lead to changes in the way we work as safety practitioners or the development of new standards or laws. In fact, we have a tremendous opportunity to change the very Social Context of Control by enhancing our communications about tragic workplace events and influencing needed change in society as a whole.

Law of the Year Work Refusals In May, WorkSafeBC amended its guideline on work refusals to:Define what constitutes an “undue hazard”;Explain the test for determining whether a worker has reasonable cause to believe that an undue hazard exists; andClarify the requirement for further …

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