Summertime Safety for Young Workers
Ontario's Ministry of Labour launched a 4-month blitz targeting industrial, retail and health care workplaces. This is the fourth blitz in as many years. Last year, the ministry inspected 3,097 workplaces and issued 3,555 orders, including 255 stop-work orders.
Awarded the Gold Canadian Award for Training Excellence in the External Training Category by the CSTD (Canadian Society for Training and Development), OSSA's new Safe Lifting for Employees and Safe Lifting for Supervisors provides a two hour session for employees and a three-hour session for supervisors. The training course provides information on:
For more information please go to http://www.ossa.com/content/services/SafeLifting.cfm.
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This glossary provides a quick reference to common health and safety terms used throughout the Six Step Guide to Health and Safety.
You can test for Isocyanates overexposure using a lung function test.