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How to comply with various safety requirements, including those in the OHS, traffic and other laws and those set by courts in actual cases, compliance pitfalls to avoid and a review of key compliance topics for each calendar year.
It used to be the case that companies had one or two locations in the same general area. But these days, many companies are huge international organizations with multiple locations in several jurisdictions—and even different companies.
For example, in a recent poll, you told us that …
Workers’ deaths in safety incidents may not be the only ones you must report.
SITUATION
Workers at a chemical manufacturing plant in ON call the Ministry of Environment’s (MOE) spill action centre to report the accidental discharge of 400 litres of cooling tower water into a nearby creek. The centre determines that no urgent action is needed. Three days later, …
SITUATION
A home owner hires a company to decommission the house’s oil furnace and convert the heating system to natural gas. The decommissioning company removes the furnace but leaves the oil tank in the basement and the oil fill pipe in place on the house’s exterior. …
Spill reporting requirements are one of the cornerstones of environmental protection laws. By requiring companies and individuals to report spills of contaminants, the government ensures that they’re addressed as soon as possible, thus reducing the harm to the environment. So is a company’s failure to …
BENEFITS
Spills of hazardous substances usually trigger certain requirements under environmental law, most notably reporting requirements. For example, the company may have to report information about the spill to local environmental authorities and take certain steps to properly and quickly clean it up. So it’s important …
The new Hours of Work and Overtime Tool will help employers to confirm and comply with specific rules concerning employee hours of work. It will also let them determine compliance for a range of standards, such as daily rest, overtime, averaging and rest between shifts. …
The new edition of CSA Z462-12 Workplace Electrical Safety, which is based on the 2012 Canadian Electrical Code, Part I, is available. It’s been extensively updated to provide guidance on:
Integrating electrical safety programs into OHS management systems
Implementing best practices for working on and around electrical …
At a manufacturing plant, a worker was operating a vertical lathe when her hand got caught between the chuck and the tooling turret as she was lowering the chuck to load a piece into it. Her hand was seriously crushed. The manufacturer was convicted of …
At a manufacturing plant, a worker was operating a vertical lathe when her hand got caught between the chuck and the tooling turret as she was lowering the chuck to load a piece into it. Her hand was seriously crushed. The manufacturer was convicted of …