Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is both a health issue and a workplace risk that can surface suddenly as a heart attack or cardiac arrest or develop over years through chronic exposures and work patterns.
Winter can be a high-risk season for fatigue-related incidents, especially in shift work environments.
Winter conditions create a unique set of chemical storage hazards across Canada.
Ontario reported the most OHS fines and British Columbia reported the biggest one.
Electrical shocks and burns can happen at any workplace that uses electrical machinery, tools, or equipment. The risk increases dramatically when work is carried out in cold, damp, or wet conditions.
While electrical shock in the workplace may occur at any time, incidents across Canada peak during the fall, winter, and spring thaw. It’s not hard to understand why.
Electrical shocks and burns can happen at any workplace that uses electrical machinery, tools, or equipment. The risk increases dramatically when work is carried out in cold, damp, or wet conditions.
8 things to do to manage electrical shock risks for work in cold, wet, or damp environments.
The 9 things to do to protect workers who perform work on energized electrical equipment.
Here’s a Checklist of key response actions that a company should seriously consider taking to mitigate the environmental harms and liability risks when an environmental incident occurs.
This article explains how Canadian OHS law treats constructors, prime contractors, and employers, why responsibility follows control, and how organizations can manage shared hazards in a defensible way.
Courts impose lighter sentences on companies that “mitigate” the harms of environmental offences.
This article explains how OHS risk increasingly sits with suppliers and contractors, why Canadian regulators are expanding scrutiny beyond the worksite, and how employers can manage supply-chain safety as part of a defensible prevention program.
This article explains why conducting winter emergency drills is a key due diligence requirement, how Canadian regulators assess winter preparedness, and how employers can design and document drills that stand up to inspections and investigations.
