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By shudecki on December 3, 2009

A few months ago while doing some training at an Ontario Municipality the fleet manager told me about a recent visit from the Ministry of Labour. They were doing a routine inspection and noticed a plow in the shop being serviced. The inspec...

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CCOHS Makes Health and Safety Tips Available Via Podc...

By shudecki on March 9, 2010 | No Comments

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) continues its march forward technologically, and has now made available several podcasts for easy download in mp3 format, for easy transfer to your iPod or other mp3 player. Of course, you don’t need an iPod or mp3 player to list...
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Health and Safety Officers Protest in Nova Scotia

By shudecki on March 8, 2010 | No Comments

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) union, which represents health and safety officers across Canada, held a rally last week to demand that Labour Minister Rona Ambrose reverse her decision to eliminate the position of labour affairs officer in Cape Breton. The union is concerned that witho...
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Worker Injured at Salvage Yard in Saskatchewan

By shudecki on March 4, 2010 | No Comments

A worker was injured recently as a result of an accident at a salvage yard in southern Saskatchewan. In the end, it was a miracle that his injuries weren’t far worse. The accident occurred as the driver had just finished weighing and backing his waste management truck into the Silver Star Salvage ...
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Podcatching Without iTunes

By shudecki on March 3, 2010 | No Comments

One of the best ways to keep up with the news, or to listen to or watch your favorite radio or tv program on your time is through podcasts. But iTunes isn’t the only program to use when looking for and downloading podcasts. The term for finding and downloading a podcast is “podcatching&#...
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Cyclist Confronts Toronto Re Street Safety

By shudecki on March 3, 2010 | No Comments

Wayne Scott has decided to take on the city of Toronto on behalf of those who rely on bicycles for their jobs. He’s taken his case to the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and claimed that Toronto’s streets constitute an unsafe workplace for those who cycle on the job. Scott, who retired f...
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Operating Heavy Equipment Safely

By shudecki on March 2, 2010 | No Comments

Those workers who operate heavy equipment must do so in all kinds of weather. During the summer, they may have to contend with extreme heat in cabs without air-conditioning. And in winter, ice and snow can make getting in and out of equipment hazardous and lead to slips and falls. And when grips and...
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Need a Photo Editor? For Free?

By shudecki on March 1, 2010 | No Comments

Okay, so you have a great digital camera, and you have thousands of photos on your computer. Now what? If you want to do something about that mass of images, you’ll need some help in the form of software. But if you think it’s necessary to pay hundreds of dollars for sophisticated progra...
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Inquest Reveals Snowplow Driver Had No Permit When Co...

By shudecki on March 1, 2010 | No Comments

According to evidence presented at a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of four people in three separate snowplow accidents that occurred in Montreal last winter, apparently at least one snow plow operator who ran over and killed an elderly Montreal couple had been driving with an expired...
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Prepare Your Facilities for the Cold: Preventing Froz...

By shudecki on March 1, 2010 | No Comments

You’ve invested lots of money in your facilities, and there is a temptation in this era of green awareness and spiraling energy costs to turn down the thermostat in cold weather in order to conserve energy and save money. But be careful; major property damage can result if a building becomes t...
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Swiss Scaffold Builder for VANOC Violated OH&S R...

By shudecki on February 26, 2010 | No Comments

As WorkSafeBC sees it, Swiss-based Nussli Special Events (Canada), the builder of scaffolds and bleachers for 2010 Winter Olympics venues violated provincial workplace safety rules when a worker fell 55-feet from a scaffold/bleacher deck at the Cypress Mountain snowboard venue last month, when the d...
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