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OHS Contractor Management 10 Best Practices

Hiring contractors to work at your site doesn’t eliminate your company’s compliance obligations [...]

Sun Safety and Skin Cancer Prevention on Outdoor Worksites

Summer brings longer days and warmer temperatures, but it also increases the risk of harmful [...]

Monitoring Air Quality on All Job Sites: Protecting Worker Health Indoors and Outdoors

Air quality is often overlooked until workers begin experiencing symptoms such as coughing [...]

Safe Material Handling on Busy Worksites

Busy worksites depend on the constant movement of materials, equipment, supplies, and waste [...]

The 25 Questions to Ask to Assess Your Preparedness for the Next Infectious Illness Outbreak

The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) that’s made its way into Canada poses little direct danger to [...]

Infectious Illness Preparedness Audit Checklist

Purpose Ebola, hantavirus, norovirus, tuberculosis, measles, pertussis, avian influenza. Canada is [...]

Special Report: Tornado Risk and Emergency Weather Alerts Put Manitoba and Saskatchewan Worksites on High Alert

Severe weather conditions from the United States have travelled north, affecting the vast majority [...]

Brief Your CEO on the Importance of Responding to Environmental Hazard Warnings

A loose wheel causes the derailment of two tank cars being moved on a rail siding next to the [...]

Incident Investigations That Go Beyond Worker Error – June 29, 2026

Date: June 29, 2026
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)
Speaker: Rick Tobin

When Mental Health Accommodation Fails and What OHS Leaders Should Learn from Repeat Claims and Failed Returns

A worker returns from a mental health-related leave, follows the graduated return-to-work plan for [...]

When Accommodation Becomes a Safety Risk and How Canadian Employers Can Balance Mental Health Duties with OHS Obligations

A worker returns after a stress-related leave. HR has medical restrictions confirming that the [...]

Near-Miss Reporting in Canada Should Be More Than a Paper Exercise

A worker walks under a mezzanine just seconds after a tool falls to the floor. A delivery driver [...]

Washington Paper Mill Tank Rupture Highlights Critical Need for Equipment Integrity and Process Safety Management

The catastrophic rupture of a chemical storage tank at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging paper mill in [...]

Take 7 Ergonomic Measures to Protect Outdoor Mobile Workers from MSI Risks

Musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) remain a leading source of lost-time workers’ compensation claims [...]

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