Submitted by Heather on Tue, May 15, 2012
On a monthly basis, a portion of your Joint Health & Safety Committee (JHSC) Certification Part 1 fee goes to Threads of Life, a charity in which Occupational Safety Group (OSG) supports.
From January to March of 2012, OSG has trained close to 840 employees in the JHSC Part 1. With the growth in your enrolment in this public program, a significant contribution has been made to our charity of choice. So THANK YOU to all our clients who have participated in our JHSC Part 1!
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 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 Heather on Wed, Jul 27, 2011
Revised August, 8,2011
Submitted by Heather on Mon, Jul 11, 2011
One of the consequences of the 2009 Christmas Eve industrial accident, that saw five workers fall thirteen stories resulting in four fatalities, was a heightened political awareness of the deficiencies in our current workplace health and safety prevention laws and strategies. As a result of that heightened awareness, the premier of Ontario ordered a study about those deficiencies and requested recommendations to try and improve our society’s track-record in that regard. That study has come to be known as the Dean Report.
Submitted by Heather on Fri, Jul 8, 2011
Imagine a chemical substance with a specific CAS (Chemical Abstract Services) Number and a specific lethal dose value that is simultaneously described as “Toxic” in North America, “Harmful” in Australia and Europe, “Moderately toxic” in China, “Hazardous” in New Zealand and “Non-toxic” in India. Imagine the legal complications and difficulty filing official paperwork in order to export this substance from one country to another.
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