Submitted by David on Tue, Feb 21, 2012
OSG is holding classes on this in Winnipeg, Calgary and British Columbia in April 2012. Why, you might ask?
Well, last year some customers asked us to do it for their branches in BC, AB and MN. We did the classes and got an outstanding reaction from the attendees and their employers. So we decided to do it again, this time with a little more publicity.
You might also question why an Ontario-based business presumes that it can teach anything to western Canadian businesses?
A bit cheeky you might say!
Submitted by Heather on Thu, Feb 9, 2012
Hazards involving manual materials handling that can lead to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) will be the focus of the Ontario Ministry of Labour's month-long blitz in February 2012 at various workplaces across the province.
Submitted by admin on Tue, Jan 10, 2012
The Expert Advisory Panel on Occupational Health & Safety (The Dean Report) was published in December 2010 making many significant recommendations to improve the responsibilities, procedures and regulations for H&S in Ontario. Then Bill 160 - more properly called ‘Occupational Health and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2011’ - was passed on June 1, 2011. Bill 160 captured some, but not all, of the Dean panel recommendations.
Submitted by admin on Mon, Jan 9, 2012
Answer: It depends!
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Submitted by Heather on Mon, Oct 17, 2011
During the month of October, the Ministry of Labour Inspectors will be conducting a blitz focused on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the industrial and health care sectors across Ontario.
PPE should always be the last form of protection as it is designed to be worn by the worker only when other engineering and administrative controls fail to eliminate the hazard. PPE includes anything from gloves and goggles; to steel toed boots, respirators and harnesses.
Submitted by Heather on Mon, Oct 17, 2011
The Ministry of Labour launched a provincial Health & Safety Contact Centre 1-877-202-0008 which allows anyone, anywhere in Ontario to call one number to report a workplace health and safety incident, critical injury, fatality or work refusal.
Submitted by Heather on Mon, Oct 3, 2011
A new corporate partnership has been created with OSG & Threads of Life- a nationally registered charity dedicated to supporting families along their journey of healing who have suffered from a workplace fatality, life-altering illness or occupational disease. On September 23rd CEO Mark Lisburn and VP of Marketing & Communications Frances Rodriguez attended Threads of Life's annual Family Forum Weekend. Here, Mark and Fran launched the OSG & Threads of Life partnership with OSG's first, quarterly donation, of over $2,200.
Submitted by Heather on Mon, Aug 29, 2011
On Friday, August 26th one of our Health & Safety Consultants, Patricia, took to the web with a FREE Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) webinar! The session was a huge success with alot of positive feedback. In case you missed it you can view the archived AODA webinar on your own time straight from the hr.com website. Participants of the webinar left with an understanding of what a disability is, what barriers people with disabilities face day to day and how organizations can achieve compliance with the Customer Service Accessibility Standard.
Submitted by Heather on Thu, Aug 25, 2011
Everyday there are OSG trainers on the road all over Ontario training in many different settings, so you can imagine that there isn’t always opportunity for all the OSG family to get together. However, once a year we have our annual “Equipment Day” here in London at our OSG headquarters where everyone in the organization can get together.
Submitted by David on Mon, Aug 8, 2011
A new booklet from the Ministry of Labour booklet called “A Guide for Joint Health and Safety Committees and Representatives in the Workplace” has been published.
Although it is dated May, 2011 it does not contain anything about the impact of Bill 160 on those committees. It includes the following statement:
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