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Post #370 – Worker Injured Removing Shoes from Power Line

Apr 15th, 2013No Comments

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

By: Jason Contant

An Alberta worker was injured when he tried to remove an article from an overhead power line and received an electrical shock.
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Post #369 – Pipeline Contractor Fined $50,000 after Fire

Apr 14th, 20133 Comments

Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Robert B. Somerville Co. Limited, a King City pipeline contractor, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that resulted in a fire.
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Post #368 – Keeping Alert (and awake) Essential to Road Safety

Apr 13th, 2013No Comments

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

Written by Dan Birch

Your eyelids feel heavy. You’re getting sleepy, very sleepy. Hope you’re not driving.

Unfortunately, for a chunk of Ontario drivers involved in vehicle collisions, sleepy they were. A report released by the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) and members of the Highway Safety Roundtable in February notes almost 20 per cent of all fatal vehicle accidents in the province involve fatigued drivers.
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Post #367 – Workers Back on the Job Following Leak

Apr 12th, 20131 Comment

Article from the OH&S Canada magazine

Written By: Jason Contant

SPRINGBROOK, PEI

Approximately 20 workers at a Springbrook, Prince Edward Island company that ships and grows fresh shellfish were back on the job after being exposed to high, but as-yet undetermined, levels of carbon monoxide (CO).
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