Fast Help to Protect Yourself from
Soaring Safety Fines and Costly Lawsuits
Even though OHS inspections, prosecutions and convictions are up all across Canada, we can help instantly protect you and your company from potentially devastating fines and lawsuits.
In light of today's tougher, new safety enforcement efforts, we have gathered together some of Canada's leading safety specialists to create the ground-breaking Safety Compliance Insider online newsletter. Simply log in to see what our experts say. In seconds, you get instant explanations of tough regulations ... immediate actions to take at your worksite ... practical solutions to the biggest compliance problems you face every day on your job. With Safety Compliance Insider, the fast compliance help you need is literally at your fingertips.
And bear in mind that our experts are insiders. They know what legal changes are on the horizon ... who is being targeted for enforcement ... what specific steps you should take to comply with the law starting at once. You'll always have safety industry insiders working on your side, telling you what to do and what NEVER to do to protect yourself from costly legal headaches.
Your subscription to the monthly Safety Compliance Insider also entitles you to a wealth of extra benefits and features. In addition to your newsletter, you get crucial alerts to new OHS changes and the opportunity to ask our editors your most pressing questions. Subscribers also have instant access to our extensive library of articles, model forms and policies, and membership to our online community for crucial discussions with other members and our editors. All in all, it's a unique and far-reaching package of benefits unequaled anywhere in the safety community.
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If there's one thing we can't emphasize too strongly, it's that the Safety Compliance Insider is truly revolutionary in the field of safety compliance. It's the FIRST and ONLY newsletter that's written for busy safety practitioners in plain-English - delivering fast, readable, actionable help in all the key areas that affect you the most.
For example, you get -On Documenting Compliance ...
To assess the effectiveness of their OHS programs, safety coordinators must conduct audits, inspections, risk assessments and incident investigations. In so doing, they generate internal documents that often contain sensitive information, such as candid description of the flaws in the company's OHS program. Wouldn't it be a nightmare if such documents were to fall into the hands of government officials, who could then use them against the company in an OHS prosecution ... (more)
On Responding to Emergencies ...
Most OHS laws specifically require employers to have plans or procedures to protect workers in the event of an emergency, particularly one that may require workers to be rescued or evacuated. In this article, we tell you what the laws require employers to do in terms of preparing for emergencies in the workplace. We'll also tell you how to comply with these requirements by conducting an assessment of the emergencies your workplace is likely to face and how well it's prepared to handle these emergencies ... (more)
On Hazardous Substances ...
MSDS (material safety data sheet) management might be a part of the job that safety coordinators hate the most. There are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of "controlled products" in most workplaces. Each one of them must have an MSDS, a document listing technical information about the product, and how to handle and store it safely. And each MSDS must be accurate, thorough, up to date and must meet specific requirements set out in WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System) laws. Failure to keep your MSDS management system within the boundaries of WHMIS requirements can lead to liability under both WHMIS and OHS laws ... (more)
On C-45 ...
C-45 is not dead. On March 17, 2008, a court sentenced a Quebec manufacturer to pay a $100,000 fine in connection with a worker's death. It was the first time that a corporation has been convicted of a criminal offence under C-45. The case has some safety professionals on edge. Some are now predicting a wave of C-45 prosecutions while others are dismissing the case as an aberration. Who's right? This article will attempt to provide some answers ... (more)
On Safety Training ...
What does the law require on orientations for new workers? Statistics show that new workers are 3 times more likely to be injured than those with more than one year of experience ... 40% of all recordable injuries are sustained by workers on the job for under one year ... and brand new workers are 5 to 7 times more likely to sustain an injury. A thorough safety orientation can go a long way towards preventing injuries - and it's also a legal requirement. Here we'll outline what provincial and territorial OHS laws say about safety orientations and tell you how to ensure that your safety orientations comply with these requirements ... (more)
On Handling Work Refusals (9 Common Traps and How to Avoid Them) ...
OHS laws give workers the right to refuse dangerous work, provided that the workers' fears are reasonable. If the work isn't really dangerous - or doesn't reasonably appear to be dangerous - the refusal is unjustified and the worker may be subject to discipline for insubordination. Safety coordinators are often called in to help determine whether or not the worker's refusal is justified. If you say the refusal is justified when it isn't, the worker gets away with disrupting operations. If you make the opposite mistake, you may expose your company to liability ... (more)
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Selling Safety to Your CEO: Making the business case for safety
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