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MASHA 2010 Conference: Save the date!

MASHA’s annual health and safety conference is set for April 20-22, 2010. For more information, click here

Review of Ontario health and safety system underway

In January a 69-year-old male worker died after falling at least four metres from scaffolding at a farm in southwest Ottawa. Paramedics say the man, who worked in heating and ventilation, was repairing a garage heater at a farm on the 6000 block of Garvin Road near the village of Richmond when he fell. in December, four men died and a fifth man was seriously injured after they plummeted 13 storeys to the ground on Christmas Eve. Scaffolding broke as the men were making balcony repairs at an apartment building. The MOL is investigating both tragedies.

In response, the government has announced a Review of the Workplace Safety System in Ontario, including the health and safety associations.
http://www.news.ontario.ca/mol/en/2010/01/review-of-workplace-safety-system-in-ontario.html

Ontario has appointed Tony Dean as chair of an Expert Advisory Panel to conduct a comprehensive review of the province's occupational health and safety prevention and enforcement system. Mr. Dean will lead a panel, comprised of safety experts from labour groups, employers and academic institutions to recommend options for structural, operational and policy improvements. The panel will research approaches to workplace safety used in other jurisdictions and will look at a range of issues including:
- Continuum of safety practices in a workplace and entry-level safety training
- Impact of the underground economy on health and safety practices
- How existing legislation serves worker safety

Part of the review will be supported by the Institute for Work & Health. The Expert Advisory Panel will report back to the Minister of Labour in Fall 2010.

Earlier this month, the MOL initiated a 90-day enforcement blitz and review on fall hazards.
http://www.news.ontario.ca/mol/en/2010/01/focus-on-fall-hazards-at-construction-sites.html

Together, we're better!

Over the years, the Ontario Prevention Systemcomprising the Ministry of Labour (MOL), the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), and health and safety associations, including MASHA have built their value around a call to Ontario businesses to change the way they work. The emotional and financial toll of 80 to 100 workplace fatalities each year, and 1,600 lost-time injuries each week, has spurred the Prevention System to boldly follow its own advice. In 2010, the System is undertaking many far-reaching initiatives that will streamline the way we work so that we can:

Improve customer service;
Add consistency to the way businesses are measured and served;
Provide better support for small and micro business.
The province's 12 health and safety associations have been consolidated to four, pushing resources to the front line and streamlining support services. MASHA has joined forces with the Pulp and Paper Health and Safety Association (PPHSA) and the Ontario Forestry Safe Workplace Association (OFSWA) to serve you better. Our collective assurance to you during this period of change is to remain committed to our high level of sector-specific service and to assisting you, our members and customers. Our structure may have changed, but the human face of it our consultants, trainers and support staff remain in place to provide the products and services you count on.

Surface Miner program offered in Haileybury

Through a partnership between MASHA and Northern College, the three modules of Surface Miner Common Core training will be offered in Haileybury in March.

The legislated training is required for anybody involved in operations in a pit or quarry. It includes three modules:
-Work Safely in the Job Environment (U5030)
-Lock Out and Tag Equipment and Energy (U5031) and
-Operate Hand and Power Tools (U5032)

The program will be offered at Northern College's Haileybury campus March 24 to 26, 2010. For more information, contact Sylvie Bennett or Lynda Hughson at Northern College, (705) 672-3376 ext. 8828 or 8853.

CEO appointed for new northern safety association

Former MOL director Candys Ballanger-Michaud will head the new northern Ontario health and safety association. Read the announcement here.

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