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Employer alert : high pressure sales tactics providing misleading information about workplace training

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This alert was released in response to complaints about aggressive, high-pressure sales tactics by commercial providers of workplace safety training for the Workplace Hazardous Materials... More ≫

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This alert was released in response to complaints about aggressive, high-pressure sales tactics by commercial providers of workplace safety training for the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS). It informs employers that there is no requirement to use a commercial training provider or materials created by a commercial company to conduct WHMIS training.

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Best practice - working safely in the heat and cold

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This publication describes the health risks associated with working in extreme heat and cold situations, and suggests reasonable solutions for workplaces. It is intended primarily for people who... More ≫

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This publication describes the health risks associated with working in extreme heat and cold situations, and suggests reasonable solutions for workplaces. It is intended primarily for people who work outdoors in areas such as road paving, construction, forestry, agriculture, ranching, oil and gas jobs, greenhouse or horticultural work, power line maintenance, and outdoor municipal work. This guidance may also be helpful to workplaces that have hot indoor environments such as kitchens, bakeries, pizza parlours, steam presses, laundries, or dry cleaning businesses. Cold indoor workplaces include those that have walk-in freezers, meat processing, or cold storage facilities.

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Occupational health and safety convictions

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Each annual issue lists companies with occupational health and safety convictions for the year, and includes the date of conviction, incident date and location, total penalty, creative sentence... More ≫

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Each annual issue lists companies with occupational health and safety convictions for the year, and includes the date of conviction, incident date and location, total penalty, creative sentence penalty amount, and recipients of the creative penalty.

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Cut-off wheel fractures during use : worker killed

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This bulletin provides a description of the incident and recommendations on how to prevent recurrence.

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