Honeywell Safety Products announces the new ESP (Enabled Safety Products) System that helps reduce operational costs, improve worker safety and assure regulatory compliance. The new ESP System combines a web-based information management software service with ultra-high frequency (UHF) and radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled Miller fall protection equipment for real-time tracking…

Field ID, provider of cloud-based safety compliance management software, has unveiled its new safety inspection and audit scoring feature. The feature enables Field ID to be easily customized to virtually any company’s safety scoring process, the company said. Field ID has always offered the flexibility to tailor inspection checklists, but…

Capital Safety announced the launch of the i-Safe™ 3.0 Intelligent Safety System.

The first important decision arising from the Bill 168 amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) held that verbal threats of workplace violence constitute just cause to terminate a worker’s employment.

On October 4, 2011, the Court of Appeal for Ontario granted leave to appeal to Blue Mountain Resorts Ltd. in its bid to overturn a recent OHS decision issued by the Divisional Court.

All too frequently Canadian workers experience violence from criminal intruders into the workplace. New reports are replete with tales of retail and service sector employees in restaurants, stores, banks and taxis being seriously or fatally injured by crime. And despite the proliferation of OHS provisions designed to protect workers from…