• Canadians Support Increased Public Investment in Own the Podium Initiatives for our Athletes [more]
   

• Canadian wood from trees affected by the mountain pine beetle is featured prominently in the design of the Richmond Olympic Oval, one of the signature buildings of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games [more…]  
   

• AMCTO: Getting the Grant: It’s a long and winding road [more...]  
   

• Getting Ready for the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) [more…]
   

• HST will push up cost of city rentals in Ottawa - Pools, fields, arenas among fees affected [more…]
   

• Windsor to seek break on HST for user fees [more...]
   

• The New HST [more…]
   

• Did you miss the special Olympic coverage of the technologies used in Vancouver then watch now  "Making the perfect sheet of Curling Ice". [more…]
   

• ASHRAE Completed Research: Off-Gassing of Indoor Swimming Pools [more…]
   

• Reinventing Maple Leaf Gardens [more…]
   

• The greening of Main Street: $300,000 in funding available immediately for municipalities TD Friends of the Environment Foundation branches out with new Tree Canada partnership [more…]
   

• Partial Court Outcomes from Muskoka Club Crash; Muskoka club's licence yanked in fatal crash [more…]
   

• Figure skaters spinning mad over rink times [more…]
   

• Toronto considers privatizing ski hill operations [more...] 
   

• CUPE: Can’t own the podium if we privatize ski hills [more…]
   

• Long and winding road to getting more ice time - Leaside Arena [more...]
   

• Turned away by rink disable child get leafs invite to the ACC [more...] Disabled child gets leafs invite the acc after being turned away at the local rink public skate [more...]
   

• Township scores PowerPlay grant for Winchester Arena fix-up [more...] 
   

• City unable to maintain old hockey rink [more…]
   

• Ice surfaces will have 'green' sheen in Orillia with new Ice Resurfacer [more...] 
   

• CUPE Custodian turns lifesaver at Georgina Civic Complex [more…]
   

• The City of Vaughan has won an award for the best Community Brochure in the province by the Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO). The Open for Business brochure was selected as the winner in the Business Development Publications category at the EDCO’s Ontario Economic Development Awards on February 4. More than 130 total entries were judged on how well they promoted their communities for location, investment and tourism opportunities. Vaughan. Open for Business [more...]
   

• The Town of Leamington wins top honours for promotional video [watch video…]
   

• Ministry of Natural Resources fined $300,000 after worker killed [more...]
   

• Official News Releases from Ice Resurfacer manufacturers RESURFICE and ZAMBONI following the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

• RESURFICE [more…]

• ZAMBONI [more…]

WORKING ALONE
Currently, Ontario does not have a specific regulation concerned with "working alone" although the Regulation for Industrial Establishments specifies a minimum number of workers for some hazardous work such as confined space entry or working on live electrical conductors. Instead, reliance is placed on the employer's general duty to take all reasonable precautions for the health and safety of the worker, as specified in the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Section 25(2) (h). The OHSA is founded on the principle of internal responsibility and is the primary force for health and safety in the workplace.

It is recommended that a job hazard analysis be performed to determine the level of risk and exposure to the suspected hazard. After having done this, appropriate controls can than be put in place by eliminating the hazard, or preventing it from harming the operator or attendant. Attached is some general information that will assist you with hazard recognition, assessment and control for your operation. By working with your JHSC along with affected staff and performing a job hazard analysis (as suggested) you will be demonstrating due diligence and making every effort to protect the safety of workers.

• Occupational Health & Safety Act

• Ministry of Labour

• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Job Hazard Analysis

• Industrial Accident Prevention Association: Preventing Falls in Industrial Workplaces

• ORFA Best Practices and Guidelines

Bill 168 which received royal assent in Dec 2009. Employers now have until June 15, 2010 to become compliant with the new changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (“OHSA”). The amendments to the OHSA impose new duties on employers to address violence and harassment in the workplace in the form of policies, programs, risk assessments, and the provision of information to workers where a person has a history of violence. The primary change made after its final reading was the removal of a duty to investigate, deal with and report threats of workplace violence.

2010-2011 Healthy Communities Fund (HCF) [more…]

MOL Inspections: A Checklist [more...]

TSSA Incident Reporting [more...]

Consumer Product Safety Commission Recall:  Watts Regulator Temperature and Pressure Relief Valves for large water heaters are being recalled for causing ruptures and heat burns [more...]