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Health & Safety
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Ontario auditor general’s report slams elevator companies, safety authority
TORONTO – Large elevator companies are continually thumbing their noses at Ontario’s largely impotent safety authority, the province’s auditor-general has found. In her annual report this week, Bonnie Lysyk said the Technical Standards and Safety Authority or TSSA lacks the…
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Operational Excellence Takes Centre Stage
The Operational Excellence in Energy and Utilities conference and workshops took place recently at the Old Mill Inn in Toronto, Ontario. Over 150 industry professionals attended the event, including representatives from Enbridge, HydroOne, Suncor, SaskPower, Hydro-Québec, Toronto Hydro, Ontario Power…
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Roads reopen, business resumes in Langley, B.C., following ammonia leak
LANGLEY – All roads have reopened around an industrial park in the Township of Langley, south of Vancouver, almost two days after an ammonia leak forced an evacuation of the area. RCMP say roads around the industrial park reopened around…
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Worker dies after being pinned by machine at Alberta chemical plant
RED DEER – An investigation by Occupational Health and Safety is underway after a worker was killed in an accident at an Alberta plant operated by Dow Canada. The department says the accident happened sometime between Tuesday evening and early…
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Ammonia leak at Fernie, B.C., ice rink linked to aging equipment
Vancouver – Old equipment that continued to be used seven years after a maintenance contractor recommended replacing it caused an ammonia leak that killed three workers at an ice rink in British Columbia last October, says an organization that oversees…
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Huffman Engineering Named Rockwell Automation Recognized System Integrator for Machine Safety
Huffman Engineering, Inc., has achieved Machine Safety recognition in the Rockwell Automation Recognized Control System Integrator program. Huffman Engineering has been a Rockwell Automation Recognized System Integrator for Control for over a decade and for Process since 2011. “By becoming…
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Dorner names Industry Manager – Sanitary
Chuck Sena has been named Industry Manager – Sanitary for Dorner. In his new role, Sena will be working with sales, marketing and channel partners to develop and execute strategic plans to drive sales of Dorner’s sanitary conveyor platform to both…
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Recorded footage provides protection after fleet traffic collision
When one of Ontario-based recycling collection firm, Advantage Waste’s front loader garbage trucks was involved in a traffic collision with a reckless car driver; a lack of witnesses meant local police had little choice but to write off the incident…
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Electrical solutions provider supports Skills Canada competition
Burlington, Ont. – Aspiring skilled trades participants recently descended upon annual Skills Canada competitions that were recently held in Toronto and Edmonton. Eaton, a proud corporate supporter of Skills Ontario for the past several years, provided competition products for the…
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Worker critically injured by partly-disassembled machine
A worker who was cleaning a mixer/grinder machine was critically injured by the partly-disassembled machine. On January 20, 2017, a sanitation worker employed by a Toronto meat processor was cleaning a mixer/grinder machine at the plant. The worker was cleaning…
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Get the schedules for workplace inspection blitzes
The Ontario Ministry of Labour publishes a schedule of inspection blitzes and initiatives in specific sectors as a way to enhance employers’ awareness of their responsibilities. Inspection blitzes are part of our Safe At Work Ontario compliance strategy and all…
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Worker dies of injuries suffered in industrial accident in Oshawa, Ont.
Oshawa, Ont. – The Ministry of Labour says a worker who was critically injured Tuesday at a construction site in Oshawa, Ont., has died in hospital. Ministry spokeswoman Janet Deline says the worker was struck by a bucket that was…
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Worker struck by falling beam during milling machine installation, manufacturing company fined
A Windsor contracting company has been fined 75-thousand dollars after a worker was critically injured while helping to install milling machines at a manufacturing plant. C-M-F Group pleaded guilty under the Occupational Health and Safety Act in connection with the…
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Royal Newfoundland Constabulary applying a criminal lens to serious injury and death in the workplace
Toronto – The United Steelworkers (USW) is applauding the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary’s (RNC) announcement that it will apply a criminal lens to serious injury and death that occur at workplaces throughout the province. USW Canadian Director Ken Neumann welcomed news…
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Report finds industrial chemicals more toxic than thought
Washington – A family of industrial chemicals turning up in public water supplies around the country is even more toxic than previously thought, threatening human health at concentrations seven to 10 times lower than once realized, according to a government…
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Deliberate spill: study launched to test crude and bitumen impact on lake life
Kenora, Ont. – Researchers were in northwestern Ontario over the weekend spilling diluted oilsands bitumen and crude oil into a lake to study how the ecosystem, from microbes to fish, responds. The pilot project, known as Freshwater Oil Spill Remediation…
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Researchers hope to reduce eagle deaths caused by turbines
Bend, Ore. – On a Monday afternoon, a captive audience watched a 14-year-old golden eagle named Walter fly from branch to branch outside the High Desert Museum, gobbling up bits of dead quail as he went. However, the demonstration was…
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Vancouver files claim over 2015 fuel spill in English Bay
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says the city has filed a federal court claim against the owner of a vessel that spilled fuel into English Bay in 2015, as part of the city’s continuing effort to get compensation for its response…
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Crews cleaning up oil spill at Kinder Morgan station north of Kamloops, B.C.
Darfield, B.C. – Crews using an emergency response trailer and vacuum trucks are working to clean up a crude oil spill at a Kinder Morgan station north of Kamloops, B.C. The provincial Ministry of Environment said a flow metre has…
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Student workers win landmark discrimination case against ABI smelter
Bécancour, Que. – Student workers have won a major victory in a human rights case against a Quebec aluminum smelter. The Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec has ruled that the ABI aluminum smelter in Bécancour violated Article 19 of Quebec’s…
