Health and Safety Feature

Provincial task force to examine construction safety
A string of construction-related deaths in Toronto and Ottawa through the winter months have sparked the creation of a provincial task force to examine health and safety, providing industry with cautious hope future tragedies may be prevented.
Health and Safety News
Bringing drill safety innovation into Ontario
A change in Quebec’s health and safety regulations may soon mean a safer environment for diamond drillers in Bradley Bros. Ltd.’s Ontario operations following the company’s successful design of a new interlock system.
Sault insecticide company makes move into U.S. marketBioForest Technologies Inc., a Sault Ste. Marie green insecticide company with a knack for stopping the emerald ash borer beetle, has struck a deal with a California tree care firm to distribute their organic formula in the U.S.
Symboticware digs up ways to monitor mines From the biting, frozen winds of Baffin Island to the grit of Sudbury’s
underground, Symboticware Inc. is no stranger to some of the harshest
climates inflicted on Canadian mining operations.
Norguard targets women with fall protection line As various industries seek to find ways to keep from slipping during a shaky economy, one Sudbury designer and manufacturer of fall protection products has braced itself by reaching out to women.


