Canadian Occupational Safety I Canada's resource for workplace health and safety information

Editorial

Corporate social responsibility and the OHS professional

A speaker at a recent international occupational health and safety conference suggested that in five years all of what we do, including health and safety, workers’ compensation, environmental compliance, and labour standards will all be known as management of corporate social responsibility. Whether OHS professionals will be merged into corporate ...

Norm Keith | Thursday, 29 July 2010

Organizations across Ontario by now should have put in place plans and programs to eliminate or control the risk of violence in their workplace. Since June 15, 2010, Bill 168, a new legislation amending the Occupational Health and Safety Act to add workplace violence-related provisions, is in ...

Mari-Len De Guzman | Monday, 21 June 2010

As we are winding deeper into 2010, many employers are still feeling the effects of 2009 from a compensation perspective. With the economic downturn, many employers had to make difficult employment decisions. Many workers were laid off, companies were downsized or closed altogether. ...

David Marchione | Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Products

Lockers unite!

North Safety Products’ new tamper-free Group Lock Box — GLB03 (bilingual) and GLB03/E (English only) — simplifies lockout of large equipment, the company says.This is how this system works: After a machine or process is locked out, the key or keys are placed in a lock box. Then each authorized wo...

Brady Corporation’s recently introduced Ready Access Storage Stations come in two styles: the Ready Access Padlock Station, designed to hold padlocks, group lockout hasps and tags, and the Ready Access Lockout Station, which offers flexible storage for a variety of lockout devices, the company says. Ready Access Padlock Station comes in...

The new APS Dock Impact Barrier is built to stop a 10,000-pound load moving at four miles per hour. Featuring heavy construction, the APS dock barrier bar is constructed of nine-sixteenths inch-thick steel cable inside a flexible fiberglass rail, which latches securely into place. Highly visible yellow nylon webbing is ...