Latest News from NorthernOntarioBusiness.com http://www.northernontariobusiness.comTue, 21 May 2013 04:46:14 EDT30en-usCopyright 2009, NorthernOntarioBusiness.com A Sudbury occupational health and safety company is offering real-life training scenarios for companies working in confined spaces.Levert WorkSafe Services has developed a training simulator that mirrors situations that rescuers and tradespeople will encounter on the job site.The company is a spinoff health and safety training division of the Levert Group, a well-known personnel resources firm.In... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/2012/10/Safety-company-offers-confined-space-training.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/2012/10/Safety-company-offers-confined-space-training.aspx17 Oct 2012 3:50:16 EDT For four years, Northern Medical Mobile has been providing companies across Northern Ontario with occupational health and safety services.Now, the company has added more resources to better help its clients.At the beginning of September, the Hearst-based provider was acquired by Workplace Medical Corp., one of the largest occupational health providers... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Acquisition-of-Hearst-based-company-means-more-resources-for-the-North.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Acquisition-of-Hearst-based-company-means-more-resources-for-the-North.aspx20 Oct 2011 2:25:50 EDT Educational institutions are seeing an increase in applications for health-care positions as the industry faces increased growing demands from an aging baby-boomer population. Never has it been more evident than in the diagnostic imaging cluster programs at Cambrian College. Hundreds of applicants are competing for a small number of available... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Aging-boomers-create-demand-for-allied-health-care-professionals.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Aging-boomers-create-demand-for-allied-health-care-professionals.aspx29 Mar 2011 1:37:36 EDT At the start of 2010, 14 of the province’s heath and safety associations were consolidated into four organizations in a move to integrate and streamline services. Workplace Safety North (WSN) resulted from the amalgamation of three previously existing organizations: MASHA (Mines and Aggregates Safety and Health Association), OFSWA (Ontario Forestry... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Safety-in-the-North-wears-a-new-face.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Safety-in-the-North-wears-a-new-face.aspx28 Oct 2010 9:22:47 EDT There is no room for complacency when it comes to working on ice.  “Ice is dangerous,” said Allan MacTavish, exploration manager, Magma Metals.“You always have to be thinking ahead.”During his 30-year mining career, MacTavish has been involved in about a dozen ice programs, including four with Magma Metals, a precious... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Ice-programs-require-planning-and-thinking-ahead.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Ice-programs-require-planning-and-thinking-ahead.aspx18 Oct 2010 2:40:39 EDT 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. “Anywhere in Canada we operate, you’re gradually going to see this system,” says Albert Bouchard, health and... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Bringing-drill-safety-innovation-into-Ontario831.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Bringing-drill-safety-innovation-into-Ontario831.aspx2 Mar 2010 9:42:19 EDT  BioForest 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.The J.J. Mauget Company of Arcadia, CA has been named the exclusive U.S.... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Sault-insecticide-company-makes-move-into-U-S--market-987.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Sault-insecticide-company-makes-move-into-U-S--market-987.aspx3 Nov 2009 3:37:08 EDT  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.It’s this kind of environment that led the five-year-old Sudbury company to develop the Symbot, an “intelligent monitoring” modular hardware device... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Symboticware-digs-up-ways-to-monitor-mines914.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Symboticware-digs-up-ways-to-monitor-mines914.aspx30 Oct 2009 9:03:40 EDT 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. Norguard Industries, which celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year, is seeing continued success with its Go Pro-Girl line,... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Norguard-targets-women-with-fall-protection-line347.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Norguard-targets-women-with-fall-protection-line347.aspx16 Oct 2009 2:18:51 EDT  The rise of workplace-related mental health concerns across the country is reinforcing the need for business both big and small to take a close look at the problem, says Andrew Harkness, senior strategy advisor with the Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA)."Over the years, the safety world has focused primarily on... http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Workplace-mental-health-concerns-carry-up-to-$11-billion-price-tag647.aspx http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Industry-News/health-and-safety/Workplace-mental-health-concerns-carry-up-to-$11-billion-price-tag647.aspx29 Sep 2009 10:02:24 EDT