People are talking about Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)
Are you listening? According to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation and Guidelines, employers are required to provide hearing-loss prevention programs, monitor noise levels and conduct annual hearing tests for workers exposed to hazardous noise levels to prevent permanent hearing damage. Hazardous noise levels are defined as 85 decibels in the A scale for eight […]
Read More →Protection that fits like a Glove
If a workplace hazard assessment reveals that employees face potential injury to hands and arms that cannot be eliminated through engineering and work practice controls, employers must ensure that employees wear the appropriate protection. Potential hazards include skin absorption of harmful substances, chemical or thermal burns, electrical dangers, bruises, abrasions, cuts, punctures, fractures and amputations. […]
Read More →Fire Suppression Safety and the BC Wildfire Crews
The Province regularly calls on the services of contractors to support the delivery of wildfire management in British Columbia. Private contractors are called upon by the BC Wildfire Service to deliver First Aid Standby to the wildland fire environment in the form of qualified OFA Level 3 personnel along with fully stocked Mobile Treatment Centre`s […]
Read More →X Marks the Spot
The digging community includes anyone who engages in, or who is responsible for any activity that results in a disturbance of the earth regardless of depth including land clearing, earth moving, grading, excavating, trenching, digging, boring, drilling, or blasting. Employers and employees share many of the same goals. Both want a working environment that is […]
Read More →It Was An Accident
Spills can occur during fuelling, handling chemicals or due to mechanical failure of equipment. It is important to conduct hazard assessments at your worksite to identify spills and get them cleaned-up. Monitoring for staining can be added to the inspection checklist and spill trays should be used when employees are refuelling equipment as any drips, […]
Read More →People are talking
About OHS Registry safety training because it’s an effective way to learn. Employers are telling our consultants it can take years for an employee to develop the necessary job expertise, and since many of those current job experts are nearing retirement, there’s a need to train a new generation and get them up to speed […]
Read More →JOHSC Training is Mandatory
Did you know that if your workplace has 20 or more workers, it is mandatory for you to have a joint committee? If your workplace has more than 9 but fewer than 20 workers, you need to have a worker health and safety representative. The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulation requires mandatory JOHSC worker […]
Read More →Fire Watch & Fire Safe Conditions
A fire watch is implemented to ensure the fire safety of a building or area in the event of any hot work, or situation that may pose an increased risk to persons or property. The term “Fire Watch” is used to identify a procedure for the detection of fire by a designated person. Canadian occupational […]
Read More →OH&S Continuing Education
Leading employers recognize that solid health & safety performance drives business results and in addition solid health and safety performance depends on healthy, safe, engaged employees. Integrating health and safety into the workplace is good business. Keeping employees healthy and safe at work, and reducing the number and severity of incidents, is at the core […]
Read More →Team-up with the OH&S Registry
Well intended supervisors might say “everyone be safe out there,” however we know that saying it is just not going to be enough to keep workers safe. It takes leadership to guide employees towards safer outcomes. It is simplistic to suggest that the cause of accidents are the workers. We know this because there are […]
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