Welding is a hazardous workspace that exposes over half a million workers to health and safety risks each year.
Welding is a hazardous workspace that exposes over half a million workers to health and safety risks each year.
Do you need a license to operate an excavator in Ontario? Honestly, it’s good to have licensing and certification to prove you know what you’re doing with an excavator; otherwise, you may find yourself with limited work.
What is Frostbite? Frostbite happens when your skin is exposed to freezing temperatures. Frostbite damages areas of your skin and sometimes even damages the tissue underneath. It is treatable, but it can be a very serious condition. HHS says it can take as little as 30 minutes for frostbite to begin to set in. So […]
What Are Safety Shoes? Safety shoes are footwear designed to protect your feet from different impact or other hazards in the workplace. Your feet are the reason that you can stand or move from place to place. Safety shoes are part of personal protective equipment (PPE). In this post, we’ll discuss what qualities needed for […]
PPE, or personal protective equipment, comes in many forms and there are standards in place to ensure a worker’s PPE provides the maximum possible protection. But who is pays for it?
What does WHMIS stand for? WHMIS stands for Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System. You recognized that some objects in the workplace have warning labels in them such as flammable or fragile. Those warning labels fall under WHMIS. WHMIS allows information regarding hazardous products to be shared amongst workers and employers. It is also a national […]