Health & Safety

Two Laurentian University research projects are among the recipients of provincial funding aimed at reducing workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities. The province is providing $2.7 million to 13 projects under its Research Opportunities Program.

It all started with a meeting at the Holiday Inn on Regent Street around nine years ago.

When Bob Ryckman started in the construction industry four decades ago, there often wasn’t much precedent for safety monitoring amongst companies, so he created his own, pioneering the use of spreadsheets and databases to track safety records.

Ontario is launching a workplace safety blitz that will focus on hazards involving material handling to ensure workers are safe on the job. From Sept. 15 to Oct.

Workplace Safety North has appointed a new transitional manager for Ontario Mine Rescue. Ted Hanley will work with current manager Alex Gryska during the interim until Gryska’s retirement next summer.

Mine rescue volunteers from Vale Canada Ltd. ’s East Mines were crowned with gold hard hats by Workplace Safety North (WSN) and Ontario Mine Rescue as the overall winners of the 64th annual Provincial Mine Rescue Competition in Timmins, June 5 and 6.

The Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) in Sudbury has acquired a mining equipment simulator for use in its health and safety training.

Trevor Stuthridge has accepted the position of executive vice-president at FP Innovations, effective July 1, 2014.

Thunder Bay Hydro landed a prestigious provincial award for its recent safety record.

The Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) is sharing its expertise in health and safety training with Base Titanium Limited for a new open pit titanium mine under construction in Kenya.