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Editorial

New return-to-work regulation targets construction

Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (WSIA) requires employers to offer to re-employ workers following a workplace injury. This obligation lasts for a specified period of time and was put into place to protect workers from being terminated by their employers for any reason surrounding the injury or their claim...

David Marchione | Thursday, 22 January 2009

Drug testing standoff

A recent Alberta Court of Appeal decision, Alberta (Human Rights and Citizenship Commission) v. Kellogg Brown & Root (Canada) Company, upheld an employer’s pre-employment drug testing program relating to a casual drug user who tested positive and was dismissed....

Raj Anand | Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Machine guarding needs strict compliance

Can an employer properly use a procedural instruction in lieu of a physical guard on machinery or equipment? Can a deliberate decision by workers not to use such a procedural instruction in itself afford a due diligence defence to a guarding charge? In a decision issued by Ontario’s highest court on Nov. 1 ...

Cheryl A. Edwards and Kevin D. MacNeill | Monday, 25 February 2008

Hygiene Products

Fast analyzers

The Rapidox Series of gas analyzers from CEA Instruments Inc. feature an extremely wide measurement range for oxygen and have been redesigned to allow optional sensors for specialized gases such as SF6, CO2, CO and N2O as high as 0 to 100 per cent volume. These continuous, very fast responding, easy-to-use analyzers can be used for many applications and offer new fittings and thermocouples for te...

The new ProRAE Guardian software from RAE Systems is being called the virtual command centre, for its real time monitoring capability of all wireless gas detection systems. The new software was first demonstrated at The Fire Department Instructors Conference in Indianapolis. The new ProRAE Guardian can monitor over 400 sensors an...

PPM Technology’s newest IAQ monitoring system, the Wireless IAQ Profile PPMonitor enables simple, effective and flexible management of the indoor air environment, the company said. The PPMonitor can continuously detect, measure and record a number of parameters, including temperature, humidity, formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ozone and ammonia, th...