Industrial Safety Trainers Inc.
Industrial Safety Trainers can assist your company in
meeting compliance with Ontario's strict safety laws.
While organizations will have different needs and scope
for specific elements required in their health and safety
program, basic items should be considered in each case.
The Safety Bus is a very unique way to make your safety training different.
These custom rolling classrooms are ready for all seasons, and come equipped with forced air furnaces for the long winters and air conditioning for the summer months.
Industrial Safety Trainers consultants employ a results-based approach to health and safety that enables your organization to implement, manage and continually improve your health and safety programs. Our consultants work together with the our clients to identify, assess and determine safety, health and environmental needs, based on the client’s readiness and capacity.
On February 2nd the Minister Peter Fonseca of the Ministry of Labour attended Industrial Safety Trainers training centre to announce the newest safety blitz for February.
The inspectors will be traveling around the province for lift truck related infractions. The blitz was prompted in part by results of a similar blitz in February 2009: inspectors visited 1,295 workplaces and issued 4,172 orders — 50% more orders per visit than usual for the ministry’s Industrial Program in that fiscal year.
Ontario workplaces have just over four months to comply with new violence and harassment requirements under Bill 168, which take effect June 15, 2010.
Employers now have to do the following;
This new legislation also includes the following;
Ontario is improving efficiency and competitiveness in the construction industry by allowing the limited use of stilts while ensuring that workers are protected from injury.
The province is amending the Construction Regulation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act to allow stilts to be used in residential construction beginning January 1, 2010. Stilts will be permitted for use by workers installing insulation and vapour barriers and finishing drywall. Workers may use stilts only after they have completed special training and only with specific safety measures in place.
Other amendments to the Construction Regulation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act provide stakeholders with more flexibility regarding wooden guardrail systems while maintaining fall protection for workers.
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