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Carbon Monoxide Safety: How to Protect Your Home, Identify Issues, and Respond to Emergencies
Carbon monoxide is a tasteless, odorless, invisible gas that occurs naturally through combustion, or, the [...]
Why It Matters: The Human Story Behind a Worker’s Combustible Dust Death
A reminder of why workplace fatalities are so much more than statistics. WHAT'S AT STAKE [...]
What’s the Difference between Liquefied Petroleum Gases and Flammable Liquids? – Ask The Expert
The differences between LPGs and flammable liquids are of critical importance for storage safety. QUESTION [...]
How to Ensure Safe Road Transport of Compressed Gases
Shipments of compressed gases must meet OHS and Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations Chance are [...]
Additional Tools, Insight & Solutions
Firing Alcoholic Employee for Coming to Work Is Disability Discrimination
What would you do if one of your employees showed up late to work intoxicated by alcohol and prescription drugs, [...]
Nurse’s N95 OHS Work Refusal Claim Deserves a Hearing
A registered nurse refused to perform COVID-19 swab testing on patients without an N95 particulate filter respirator. The employer contended [...]
Employer Fined $320,000 for Fatal Crane Incident
Two workers were using a gantry crane to move precast concrete slabs in a storage yard. One of the slabs [...]
Court Refuses to Set Aside Exclusion Order against Chinese National
The Minister of Public Safety ordered a Chinese national to leave Canada found to be in the country illegally. The [...]
OHS Workplace Posting Requirements Across Canada: Know The Laws Of Your Province
Which health and safety information must you post at your workplace' Canadian OHS laws incorporate the principle of the workers’ [...]
COVID And The Courts: The Year In Review
Canada has officially surpassed the one-year anniversary of our first case of COVID-19. The ensuing pandemic has since disrupted almost [...]
How to Protect Your “Supervisors” Against OHS Liability
Liability as a supervisor is based on job functions, not job titles. Once a relatively rare phenomenon, OHS prosecution of [...]